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| Yemenis protest for release of Guantanamo inmates |
| 2013-04-17 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Relatives of Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo and activists demonstrated on Tuesday outside the US embassy in Sanaa demanding the release of inmates on hunger strike. "Obama, Obama, enough detentions," the protesters chanted in an appeal to US President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... , an AFP correspondent reported. Twenty protesters wore orange jumpsuits, similar to those worn by prisoners at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "We urge the US government to immediately release the detainees at Guantanamo," read a banner carried by protesters at the rally. The "94 Yemeni detainees are on hunger strike in Guantanamo," said Mohammed al-Ahmadi, an official from Al-Karama, a local non-governmental organization. A veiled black-clad mother of a detainee also said inmates were on hunger strike. "The Americans say they hold our sons to rehabilitate them. They can return them to us and we could take care of them," said the woman who told AFP her son was captured in Pakistain where he worked. "He has no links to terrorism," she said. The protesters handed a US embassy representative a petition urging the release of Guantanamo prisoners. |
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