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Poems From GuantánamoGuantánamo Bay
It is six years since the US authorities first transported 'war on terror' detainees to the military prison at the naval camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Half a decade on and not a single detainee has yet been put on trial. The only trials in prospect are unfair military tribunals.
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A glimpse inside Guantánamo
A videotape of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned in Guantánamo has been released for the first time. Amnesty International calls for Omar Khadr to be repatriated and tried in Canada by an ordinary court or released. Read more about this story
Warning - this footage may not be suitable for a young audience
UK residents released
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Act now for Binyam
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Three UK residents - Jamil el Banna, Omar Deghayes (pictured) and Abdennour Sameur
- have been released and returned home to the UK. Please send greetings cards
and take action for the remaining UK residents detained in Guantánamo. 
On 24 July, Binyam Mohamed - an Ethiopian national, and a former resident of
the United Kingdom who has been detained at Guantánamo Bay since September 2004
- will turn 30 years old.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 Act now to close Guantánamo
Join us in urging US President George W. Bush to close Guantánamo Bay and ensure that all detainees are either released with full protections or charged and brought to full and fair trial in the US courts. Sign the petition now
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. 
