AI Luxembourg organized a public action in the main square of Luxembourg Ville, starting at 12h30 until 13h30. Eight activists were dressed up as Guantánamo detainees with orange jumpsuits and black hoods and other activists supported the action with big banners.
The Italian section has been holding demonstration in front of the American Embassy in Rome and other important Italian cities: Firenze (in front of the American consulate), Bologna, Ancona, Foggia, Milano, Venezia.
This morning, some 30 AI Italian activists (some of them wearing orange boiler suite) gathered outside the US Embassy in Rome holding a big banner “Close Guantánamo Now!”.
On the sixth anniversary of Guantánamo, activists from Amnesty International and the United Against Torture Coalition gathered near the US embassy in Manila to demand the closure of Guantánamo.
In Madrid (Spain), ex-Guantánamo detainee Ruhal Ahmed participated in the poetry action organized by AI Spain. In the picture, he is reading one of the poems from the book Poems from Guantánamo.
Actions to mark the sixth anniversary of Guantánamo in the United Kingdom started on 10 January, when Amnesty International activists in London organized an all-night vigil around a replica Guantánamo cage, filled every hour with a new ‘captive’.
On a global day of action six years later, supporters in orange jumpsuits gathered outside the U.S. Consulate in Sydney’s Martin Place to represent the nearly 300 detainees remaining in Guantanamo Bay.
Activists wearing orange jump suits formed the figures 275 representing the approximate number of detainees still held in Guantanamo Bay.
On 11 January, activists will rise up in Washington D.C. against illegal detentions at Guantánamo and elsewhere.
This action is part of a worldwide protest denouncing torture and unlawful detentions. At U.S. embassies and other prominent locations around the world, including Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Greece, activists will gather to call for the closure of Guantánamo and the end of illegal US detentions.
Read more about the action in Washington D.C. and sign up for the protest in front of the White House.
11 January Join us in calling for the closure of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay as we mark the 6th anniversary of the first ‘war on terror’ detainees being transported to the camp. Join the protest in London, Belfast and Edinburgh.
Amnesty International will kick off 2008 with the largest orange jumpsuit action in Australia. It will take place outside the US Consulate in Martin Place, Sydney.
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