Poems From GuantánamoGuantánamo Bay
President Obama has ordered the suspension of military trials and the closure
of Guantánamo Bay.
These are positive moves and a testament to everyone who has been tirelessly campaigning on these issues for so long. However there is more that needs to be done.
Amnesty is calling on President Obama to promptly charge Guantánamo detainees with recognisable criminal offences or release them immediately. And to ensure that those detainees who are to be charged receive fair trials in US federal courts.
Amnesty is also urging the UK Government to do its bit by offering 'humanitarian protection' to detainees who risk torture or persecution at home.
BINYAM MOHAMED: HIS LAWYER SPEAKS OUT
Binyam Mohamed has now returned home from Guantánamo Bay, where he was held for over four years. Amnesty has an exclusive interview with his military lawyer Lt. Col Yvonne Bradley, who represented Binyam while he was held at the camp. Here she gives an open and honest interview about his case and how he was treated. Find out more about Binyam's case
Act now for Detainees
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Act now for Omar
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Amnesty is very concerned for approximately 50 detainees held at Guantánamo Bay,
who are currently on hunger strike.
Canadian citizen Omar Khadr cannot receive a fair trial through the seriously
flawed military commissions set up in Guantánamo Bay. When water is torture
You are tied to a board, your ankles, wrists, chest and head strapped firmly down. Water pours onto your face, flows up your nose, into your mouth, down your throat and fills your lungs and stomach.
This is waterboarding.
The CIA uses waterboarding to try to extract information from detainees in the 'war on terror'. President George Bush thinks it is a 'necessary tool'. We think it's torture.
Getting creative with Guantánamo
Young people in schools across the UK have customised figures in orange Guantánamo
Bay jumpsuits to say whether they think the prison should be closed or remain
open.
See the results and submit your own figures
Report
Amnesty's report Cruel and Inhuman reveals that 80% of detainees at Guantánamo Bay are being held in solitary confinement, often in harsh and inhumane conditions. We are calling for independent medical experts to be allowed to examine prisoners. Find out more |
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Moazzam Begg was abducted in January 2002 from his home in Islamabad by Pakistani and US
agents. Watch clips of Moazzam Begg talking about
The story so far
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Poems from Guantánamo
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On 11 January 2002 the first detainees were transferred to Guantánamo Bay from
Afghanistan. To this date no Guantánamo detainee has been convicted of a criminal
offence by the USA.
This extraordinary anthology of poems is written by men imprisoned in Guantánamo
Bay. Since 2002, at least 775 men have been held in the US detention centre. They
wrote their poems with little expectation of ever reaching an audience beyond
a small circle of their fellow prisoners. 
