END INJUSTICE AT GUANTANAMO END IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT TRIAL

 
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In the 'war on terror', many hundreds of people have been imprisoned without charge or trial by the US and UK governments - at Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan, Iraq, the United States and the United Kingdom.

These people can be held indefinitely without trial and have reportedly been kept in conditions amounting to torture. Most are not allowed access to families or lawyers. At Guantanamo they face a closed military tribunal with prosecution, defence and judge appointed by the US military. In the UK 16 detainees have been held without charge in Belmarsh Prison since December 2001. The rejection of recent appeals means that detainees now face indefinite detention. More generally, UK anti-terrorism legislation is being used to harass migrant and refugee communities and suppress dissent, fan the flames of racial hatred and restrict the right of free speech.

We call on the UK and US governments
  - to abandon all forms of internment without trial.
  - to immediately release those imprisoned without trial or charge them and conduct a fair and transparent trial.

We call on the UK government
  - to secure the release of all nine British citizens and two British residents held in Guantanamo, for freedom or fair trial in Britain
  - to demand the freedom or fair trial of all prisoners at Guantanamo.
  - to end the use of anti-terrorism legislation to harass migrant and refugee communities and suppress dissent

Sponsored by: Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC), Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Peace and Justice in East London, Pax Christi, Voices UK, City Circle, JustPeace, The Muslim Parliament of Great Britain, Association of Muslim Lawyers, The Green Party of England and Wales, Peace and Progress.