- Target:
- Mr P M McKinley American Ambassador To Europe
- Region:
- GLOBAL
- Website:
- www.end-unlawful-imprisonment.org.uk
At least 210 detainees have been on hunger strike since 11 August in protest at their conditions. An earlier hunger strike was stopped when the US authorities promised some changes. They reneged on these promises and the detainees have resumed their protest.
Anyone familiar with the Irish hunger strikes of the 1980s will realise that these detainees are at a critical stage - it's a matter of life and death. Please contact your civil representatives in European, national, regional and local bodies and urge them to press the American authorities, as a matter of urgency, to release those held without detention and allow families, medical practitioners and democratic representatives access to these detainees.
Detainees have now been held at Guantanamo for over three years without proper access to a due process of law. Their families are refused access and they are not even allowed proper access to their legal representatives and where that access is allowed unreasonable restrictions are placed on the lawyers concerned.
This situation needs to be resolved and proper rule of law established in places that are used as prisons by the American administraion and its allies.
At least 210 detainees at Guantanamo have been on hunger strike since 11 August in protest at their conditions. An earlier hunger strike was stopped when the US authorities promised some changes. They reneged on these promises and the detainees have resumed their protest.
Anyone familiar with the Irish hunger strikes of the 1980s will realise that these detainees are at a critical stage - it's a matter of life and death.
We therefore urge the American Ambassador to Europe, as a matter of urgency, to obtain visitation rights for the following:
1. Members of the families of European residents still being held at Guantanamo accompanied with a medical doctor from Europe.
2. A delegation consisting of Members of the European Parliaments to accompany the families and the medical team as a matter of urgency.
We also urge the American Ambassador to ensure that the American authorities holding detainees at Guantanamo abide by the Geneva Conventions and other Human rights conventions to which they are signatories and obliged to honour.
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The Human Rights for Guantanamo Detainees petition to Mr P M McKinley American Ambassador To Europe was written by OmarDeghayesCampaign and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.