Members of Witness Against Torture,seeking camp’s closure, to initiate protest on Wednesday before a fast starting on Thanksgiving in solidarity with inmatesFourteen peace activists from across the United States will initiate a protest vigil and fast along the perimeter fence of the US military detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, and Cuba,on Wednesday in an attempt to draw attention to what they consider to be ongoing human rights abuses at the prison.
The protesters are all members of Witness Against Torture, a group which campaigns to hold Guantánamo shut down. They plan to set up camp as close as they can to the 107 remaining detainees still being held at the facility. They will then initiate a fast on Thanksgiving in symbolic solidarity with the 47 men inside the prison who hold been cleared for release but are still trapped in legal limbo having never been charged with any crime, or many of whom hold been on starvation strike.
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Source: theguardian.com