Activists organized an action in support of Shaker Amer — the last resident of Great Britain in the American prison Guantanamo. They arranged 24-hour hunger strike with the purpose to achieve immediate release of the prisoner who more than 13 years are in custody. The head of the movement "Together with Shaker" Joanne Makinnes in interview of RT told that activists are concerned by ill treatment of supervisors not only of Amer, but also of all prisoners of Guantanamo. RT
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this action that Shaker with advantage stopped the hunger strike. We want to tell these that it needs to eat food and to restore health, and we will protest for it, after all we not less it are concerned by ill treatment of prisoners of Guantanamo, including Shaker. Specially for the stock "Hunger Strike for Shaker" we made the website where everyone can send to it the message, having chosen the necessary date. Each of them with the indication of date and a place of its writing appears on a site in the section "Calendar". When Shaker will be released on October 25, on what we hope and for that we very much wait, he will read all these messages — so to speak, greeting cards — from many hundred people" — Joanne Makinnes's RT, the head of the Together with Shaker organization to
Shaker Amer was born in Saudi Arabia, his wife and four children live in London. In 2001 when Shaker was engaged in volunteer activity in the charitable organization in Afghanistan, local fighters kidnapped him, and then sold to the American military.
B 2002 it placed in Guantanamo prison where it and stays still, and charges were not brought to it. Twice it promised to release, however Amer is afraid that never will be able to leave from under guards, even despite assurances of the British government.