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Cindy Sheehan in Havana with Other Anti-war Activists

CUBA, January 6, 2007.- A group of defenders of peace, including Cindy Sheehan, mother of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, arrived in Cuba on Saturday as part of a campaign to demand the immediate closing of Guantánamo prison.

Sheehan is accompanied by a former prisoner of that facility -- illegally located in Cuban territory -- as well as attorneys and relatives of some detainees. The group will call for increased international actions against the U.S.-run prison and against torture.

The delegation will protest the existence of the prison and will give a conference on the abuses committed there on the International Day for the Closing of Guantánamo, slated for Thursday, January 11th.

Asif Igbal, released without charges after years of abuse, and Zohra Zewawi, whose son was jailed, tortured and mutilated in Guantánamo, are also in Cuba on the delegation.

The group will be in Cuba until next Saturday, January 13th. Their program includes a visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center, the Latin American School of Medicine, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and other places of interest.

They will travel to the eastern province of Guantánamo on Thursday to express their rejection of torture and will participate in a press conference to be held in Havana, the Cuban capital. (Cubaminrex-RHC)

 

 

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