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Online activist group Anonymous calls for huge anti-Gitmo protest effort
Activist group Anonymous has announced a major global protest effort on the ground and online to mark the 100th day of the hunger strike waged by captives held at US Guantanamo military prison to object to their indefinite detention without charges or trials.
“We stand in solidarity with the Guantanamo hunger strikers. We will shut down Guantanamo,” said an online statement posted by the activist group on Tuesday.
Describing the American military detention and torture facility as a “concentration camp” and “and ongoing war crime,” Anonymous further called on its supporters to join three days of massive protests from May 17 through 19 against the prison camp.
According to official figures by prison authorities, out of the 166 captives held at the US military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, over 100 have joined the hunger strike with at least 21 being forced-fed to prevent their demise, a move that rights groups have condemned as torture.
This is while inmate lawyers have put the number of hunger strikers at 130 or more. They further say that dozens of the detainees remain in captivity years after being cleared for release.
Anonymous did not elaborate on how it would go about prompting the shutdown of the notorious prison camp but vowed that “twitterstorms, email bombs and fax bombs” would be part of its anti-Guantanamo campaign this month.
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