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U.S. Citizens Launch March on Guantanamo

HeadlineDec 09, 2005

Twenty-five U.S. citizens are in Cuba to protest prison conditions at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo. The group began a 50-mile march to the prison from Santiago de Cuba on Wednesday. Freda Berrigan, in Cuba with Witness Against Torture told Democracy Now: “It’s unlikely that we’ll get all the way into the base at Guantanamo. We’re marching with a prayerful intention to visit the prisoners. at the same time we’re calling on our friends around the world, people in the United States to call on the American government to let us in. And we intend to arrive as close to Guantanamo as we can get on Saturday which is International human rights day.Because we don’t believe the President we don’t believe that torture and abuse isn’t happening at Guantanamo and we also don’t believe that the men who are there, the fathers the brothers the sons who are being held there are making us that much safer as Americans.”

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