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US Activists Thank Cuban Treatment

Guantanamo, Cuba, Dec 15, 2005. (Prensa Latina) Members of the US group Witnesses against Torture, who has been camping outside the illegal US Naval Base in Guantanamo, thanked the Cuban people and authorities treatment while protesting against abuses of prisoners held in that military complex.

Several participants expressed gratitude to remain near the place where hundreds of detainees have been held for more than three years under horrific conditions that violate international laws.

Since December 12 and after a 50-mile march to Guantanamo Bay, peace fighters camped outside the military enclave living on natural fruits and drinks as part of their protests.

The 25 people, most of them from Catholic Worker movement, hold a fast in solidarity and a vigil to pray for the immediate abolition of torture by all nations near the gates of the naval base.

Activists opined they received warm hospitality tokens by Cuban families sideways and stayed overnight in the backyards of two of them receiving disinterested help from residents.

Witness against Torture, headquartered in New York, was supported by US Center for Constitutional Rights whose jurists questioned the legality of detention methods used by their government.

At Guantanamo´s military installation there are 500 convicts who are labeled as "enemy combatants" by the US, without charges against them or being committed for trial.

 

 

 

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