Amnesty marks six years of Guantanamo with worldwide protests

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Friday marks the sixth anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to Guantanamo Bay.

To mark the occasion thousands of Amnesty International members and supporters are taking action around the world calling on the US government to end illegal detentions at Guantanamo and elsewhere.

This anniversary is not just about Guantanamo, says Amnesty. The detentions there are only one part of the unlawful detention policies and practices that the US government has adopted since 11 September 2001 in the name of counter-terrorism and national security. These include secretly transferring detainees between countries (“renditions”), holding them in secret detention sites and subjecting detainees to interrogation techniques and conditions that amount to torture or other ill-treatment.
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Today, more than 1,200 parliamentarians from countries including the UK, Japan, Israel, Bahrain and Germany, have signed a petition calling on the USA to end all its illegal detentions, and either to charge detainees with recognizable crimes and bring them to trial in civilian courts, or release them in a way that guarantees respect for their human rights.
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Heres the list of world wide Protests
London a all night vigil
Washington DC petition of 100,000
Swedan
Ireland
Bahrain
Paraguay
Phillipines