Victoria Brittain (author and journalist) reading from a book of "Poems from Guantánamo THE DETAINEES SPEAK" (poetry written by detainees) at a public rally marking the tenth anniversary of the opening of the illegal and inhuman US military prison camp at Guantánamo Bay (opened on the 11th of January 2002) and Obama's broken election promise and Presidential disobeyed order, to close Guantánamo. The demonstration is organised by the London Guantánamo Campaign (LGC), Save Shaker Aamer Campaign (SSAC), Stop the War Coalition (StWC) and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Speakers will include: Victoria Brittain (writer), Sarah Ludford (Liberal Democrat MEP), Louise Christian (solicitor for a number of GTMO prisoners and their families), Kate Hudson (CND), Aaron Kiely (NUS), Pete the Temp (poet), Lindsey German (StWC), Steve Bell (CWU), Cortney Busch (Reprieve), Joy Hurcombe (SSAC), Jean Lambert (Green Party MEP), Shaun Brown (LGC), introduced by David Harrold (LGC). Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 7th January 2012
Date: 07/01/2012
Location: Trafalgar Square, London, UK
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff
