5,000 sail to Cuba to Close Guantánamo

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> AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
> PRESS RELEASE
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> http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGAMR510172007
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> AI Index: AMR 51/017/2007 (Public)
> News Service No: 013
> 22 January 2007
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> 5,000 sail to Cuba to Close Guantánamo
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> Just over a week on from the 5th anniversary of the first transfers
> to the US prison camp at Guantánamo, over 5,000 people from more than
> 90 countries have set off on a virtual voyage to the US detention
> center.
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> The travellers are taking part in AI’s latest online campaign to
> persuade the US government to close Guantánamo. The campaign will run
> until 26 June, International Day for the Protection of Victims of
> Torture.
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> Each person who signs up to join the flotilla can design their own
> outfit, redo their hair and choose from a range of flotation devices
> from pirate ships and dinghies to dolphins and dragons. People can
> also choose a message about Guantánamo in a selection of languages.
> As people progress towards Cuba, they will be invited to sign
> petitions on behalf of those detained in Guantánamo.
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> “The protests which took place less than a fortnight ago showed that
> people across the world want to see Guantánamo closed. We are now
> taking that struggle from the streets to cyber space,” said Denise
> Searle, Senior Director of Communications at Amnesty International.
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> “This campaign is also a response to the US government’s continuous
> disregard of international outrage at Guantánamo detentions and to
> AI's numerous unanswered requests to visit the detainees who are held
> there virtually incommunicado.”
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> You can visit AI’s online flotilla at:
> http://www.amnesty.org/guantanamoflotilla/
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> To download a banner to AI's flotilla (in English or Spanish), please
> go to: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-bannersflotilla-eng
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> For other languages, please contact Edurne Rubio on
> erubio@amnesty.org
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> For further information about AI's campaign to close Guantánamo,
> please see: www.amnesty.org/closeguantanamo
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