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Hunger Striker Launches Twitter Campaign to Close Gitmo

By Spencer Ackerman, Wired, 20/5/13

20 May 2013
Gitmo hunger striker launches Twitter campaign

By Natasha Lennard, Salon, 20/5/13

20 May 2013
BBC World Service report on Shaker Aamer

By Farhana Dawood, BBC World Service, 14/5/2013

14 May 2013
Clive Stafford Smith on BBC World Service discussing Shaker Aamer

Reprieve's Director Clive Stafford Smith on the BBC World Service Global News Podcast discussing why Shaker Aamer is still being denied his freedom

14 May 2013
My Guantanamo Hunger Strike Hell

By Shaker Aamer, The Daily Mail, 4/5/2013

04 May 2013
UK minister refuses to say why Shaker Aamer remains in Guantanamo

UK minister refuses to say why Shaker Aamer remains in Guantanamo

24 April 2013
Shaker Aamer and the dirty secrets of the war on terror

By Seumas Milne, The Guardian, 24/04/2013

24 April 2013
MPs to debate return of hunger-striking Guantanamo inmate Shaker Aamer to UK

Parliament to debate return of hunger-striking Guantanamo inmate Shaker Aamer to UK

23 April 2013
Questions to be raised about last UK resident in Guantánamo

By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 23/04/2013

23 April 2013
Editorial: A cry from Guantanamo that should shame us all

Editorial, The Independent, 22/04/2013

22 April 2013
Shaker Aamer: 'I may have to die. I hope not. I want to see my family again'

By Shaker Aamer, The Independent, 22/04/2013

22 April 2013
The Lost Briton of Guantanamo: he's been cleared - but had a devastating secret about MI6 and the Iraq War which means he can never be freed

By David Rose, The Mail Online, 21/04/2013

21 April 2013
Shaker Aamer: 'I want to hug my children and watch them as they grow'

By Shaker Aamer, The Guardian, 21/04/2013

21 April 2013
Guantánamo Bay: why can't Shaker Aamer return home to London?

By Mark Townsend, The Observer, 20/04/2013

20 April 2013
Guantánamo Bay's last UK detainee: 'people are dying here' in hunger strike

By Matt Williams, the Guardian, 14/04/2013

14 April 2013
Parliament must debate return of hunger-striking Shaker Aamer to UK

Parliament must debate return of hunger-striking Shaker Aamer to UK

12 April 2013
Shaker Aamer: "I’m a bit of a professional hunger striker, I’ve done it so often"

By Shaker Aamer, the New Statesman, 05/04/2013

05 April 2013
Londoner in Guantanamo Bay goes on hunger strike

ITV News, 03/04/2013

04 April 2013
Last British detainee joins hunger strikers

By Paddy McGuffin, the Morning Star, 04/04/2013

04 April 2013
Last UK resident in Guantanamo joins hunger strike

A British resident who has been held by the US without charge or trial for over eleven years has joined the hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay.

03 April 2013
Guantánamo hunger strike numbers rise

By Carol Rosenberg, the Miami Herald, 01/04/2013

02 April 2013
11 years in Guantanamo without trial or charges

By Phil Hirschkorn, CBS News, 31/03/2013

02 April 2013
MP seeks law to combat defamation of last British resident in Guantanamo

As British resident Shaker Aamer marks 11 years in Guantanamo Bay, Caroline Lucas MP has tabled amendments to the government’s proposed Justice and Security Bill aiming to increase accountability of the security services.

14 February 2013
After eleven years of Guantánamo, British resident remains imprisoned

Today marks eleven years since the first men were taken to Guantánamo Bay. 166 men are still detained at the prison. The last British resident is still held despite having been cleared for release.

11 January 2013
Reprieve sues Britain's spies for Shaker Aamer lies

By Paddy McGuffin, Morning Star Online, December 14 2012

04 January 2013
Shaker Aamer, Guantanamo Detainee, To Sue British Intelligence for Defamation, With Support of Frankie Boyle

By Jessica Elgot, Huffington Post UK, December 14 2012

22 December 2012
Boyle backs bid to free last Briton held in Guantanamo

By Alison Campsie, The Herald Scotland, December 15 2012

22 December 2012
Comedian Frankie Boyle pledges to use £50,000 payout to help last Briton in Guantanamo sue MI6

By James Rush, The Daily Mail, December 14 2012

18 December 2012
Frankie Boyle announces that Shaker Aamer is to sue MI5 & MI6 for defamation

Comedian Frankie Boyle today joined Reprieve to announce that the last remaining British resident in Guantanamo Bay is suing the intelligence services for defamation.

14 December 2012
Comic announces Guantanamo Brit is suing MI5 and MI6

By ITV News, December 14 2012

14 December 2012
Guantánamo Bay Briton to sue UK government

By Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, December 14 2012

14 December 2012
Guantanamo inmate Shaker Aamer to sue UK for defamation

By Steve Swann, BBC News, December 14 2012

14 December 2012
Shaker Aamer marks eleven years under arrest with no trial, regularly beaten

Shaker Aamer marks eleven years under arrest with no trial, regularly beaten

26 November 2012
Federal judge backs Guantanamo prisoners' right to a lawyer

Yesterday, the D.C. District Court issued a ruling that will prevent the U.S. government from further eroding the rights of Guantánamo detainees.

07 September 2012
Fears for Shaker Aamer as Pentagon reveals 'mind-altering drugs' forcibly used on Guantánamo prisoners

Londoner Shaker Aamer may have been among those forcibly administered "mind-altering drugs" by the US military, either as part of an interrogation or as a de facto disciplinary measure - tactics revealed in a recently-declassified Pentagon report.

12 July 2012
What the last British resident in Guantánamo Bay couldn’t tell me

Last week, I travelled 3,500 miles to meet with the last British resident in Guantánamo Bay, Shaker Aamer. Under the Orwellian rules that govern legal visits with a prisoner there, everything he said to me is classified.

03 May 2012
What the last British resident in Guantánamo Bay couldn’t tell me

By Clive Stafford Smith, Liberal Conspiracy, 02/05/2012

02 May 2012
Please sign the UK e-petition calling on the UK Government to free Shaker Aamer

British resident Shaker Aamer has a British wife and four British children. He has been held at Guantánamo for 10 years without charge or trial. He is held even though the Bush administration cleared him for release in 2007, Obama reportedly cleared him in 2010, and the UK government has been requesting his release for five years. Help us bring this injustice to an end. Please sign the e-petition to demand his release.

28 March 2012
Second decade behind bars, with no charge

ABC Australia, 15/02/2012

15 February 2012
Listen to BBC Radio 4 on Shaker Amer

The Today programme reports on the 10th anniversary of British resident Shaker Amer arriving in Guantánamo Bay.

14 February 2012
Ten years after his arrival in Guantánamo Bay, British resident Shaker Aamer remains held under the harshest conditions

Today marks ten years since Londoner Shaker Aamer was transferred to the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay, where he has since been abused and held in punishing isolation but never charged with any crime.

14 February 2012
Police statement shows serious questions remain for Government over Libya torture complicity

Response to today's joint statement by the Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan Police on investigations into UK complicity in the torture of detainees.

12 January 2012
‘Majority of Gitmo prisoners innocent’

Russia Today, 12/01/12

12 January 2012
Guantánamo's last British inmate: the mystery of Shaker Aamer

by Richard Norton-Taylor and Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 11/01/12

12 January 2012
Watch Moazzam Begg on Sky News

Mozzam Begg speak to Sky News about the closure of Guantánamo Bay and the last British resident held there, Shaker Aamer.

11 January 2012
Watch Clive Stafford Smith on BBC London

Reprieve Founder and Director Clive Stafford Smith speaks to BBC London about Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo Bay.

11 January 2012
10 years since Guantánamo Bay

It’s ten years since the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo Bay. To give some sort of perspective, that’s almost as long as the ipod and the Euro have been around.

11 January 2012
Ten years on, UK resident remains in detention at Guantanamo

by Matt Williams, The Scotsman, 09/01/12

09 January 2012
Guantánamo Bay: An Unpalatable Visit

This week I visited Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British resident being held in Guantánamo Bay.

25 November 2011
Shaker Aamer, last British resident in Guantánamo Bay, “celebrates” his tenth year imprisoned without charge or trial

Ten years ago today Shaker Aamer was detained in Afghanistan. He was subsequently sold for a bounty to US forces, tortured in Bagram Air Force Base and Kandahar (with British agents as witnesses), before being transferred to Guantánamo Bay for additional abuse.

24 November 2011
Foreign Secretary defends Government stance on Battersea Guantanamo Bay prisoner Shaker Aamer

by Paul Cahalan, Wandsworth Guardian, 29/04/10

29 April 2010
US is asked to free last British prisoner at Guantanamo Bay

by Kiran Randhawa, The Evening Standard, 03/03/10

04 March 2010
Police investigate claim that MI5 was complicit in Shaker Aamer's torture

by Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian, 19/02/10

19 February 2010
Heartbreaking' moment Shaker Aamer saw first photo of son

by Paul Cahalan, Your Local Guardian, 11/02/10

15 February 2010
Government to release secret files that 'prove MI5 colluded in torture of terror suspect'

by Dan Newling, The Daily Mail, 13/01/10

14 January 2010
Free my dad from Guantanamo, 12-year-old asks Brown

by Robert Verkaik, The Independent, 11/01/10

11 January 2010
Miliband snubbed by US over prisoner's release

by Rober Vekaik, The Independent, 12/11/09

12 December 2009
Britain mixed up in more 'wrongdoing' - this time against Shaker Aamer, the last British resident left in Guantánamo Bay

Another day, another crime. That’s how it seems to be going for the British government at the moment.

09 December 2009
High Court hears the case of Shaker Aamer, the last recognized British resident in Guantánamo Bay, as Government demands secrecy

The British Government calls for closed hearings about Londoner Shaker Aamer - once again at the request of the Americans - in the High Court today.

08 December 2009
'MI5 agent left me alone with gun', says Guantánamo terror detainee

by Jamie Doward, The Observer, 06/09/09

07 September 2009
Abuse of Shaker Aamer continues...

On Wednesday July 22nd 2009 Shaker Aamer was supposed to see his lawyer. Instead, that day Mr. Aamer was beaten by six soldiers clad in riot gear, stripped down with a pair of heavy duty shears, and left to wallow under a cold air conditioning vent.

04 September 2009
Lawyer denied access to Shaker Amer in Guantanamo

by Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 04/09/09

04 September 2009
Shaker Amer - The Londoner left to rot in Guantánamo Bay

by Jameela Oberman, The Palestine Telegraph, 05/07/09

05 July 2009

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