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Twelve years of shameful torture
Protest marks grim Guantanamo birthday and calls for Aamer release

This weekend marked another shameful anniversary in the history of Guantanamo Bay and the ongoing incarceration without trial of British detainee Shaker Aamer.

January 11 marked 12 years since the US gulag opened its doors.

And despite repeated pledges by the Obama administration that the camp would close, 155 men continue to languish there in appalling conditions.

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