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Guantanamo prison wife pleads with PM to secure release
THE wife of British Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer has issued a desperate plea to David Cameron, urging him to secure her husband’s freedom during his visit to the White House this week.
Mr Aamer, from south London, has been detained without charge or trial at the US prison camp since 2002.
This is despite his having twice been cleared for release, first by the Bush administration in 2007 and again by President Barack Obama in 2009.
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