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Government platitudes over the ongoing ordeal of the last British resident in Guantanamo are no longer enough, campaigners warned yesterday as damning new evidence of mistreatment emerged.
Shaker Aamer, from south London, has been detained at the US gulag since 2002 without charge or trial despite having twice been cleared for release by the US authorities.
During this time he has been subjected to appalling abuse and regular beatings.
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
