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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/17/guantanamo-bay-al-jazeera">http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/17/guantanamo-bay-al-jazeera</a><BR>
An al-Jazeera journalist who was imprisoned in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/guantanamo-bay">Guantánamo Bay</a> plans to launch a joint legal action with other detainees against former US president <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/george-bush">George Bush</a>
and other administration officials, for the illegal detention and
torture he and others suffered at the hands of US authorities.<BR>The
case will be initiated by the Guantánamo Justice Centre, a new
organisation open to former prisoners at the US base, which will set up
its international headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, later this month.<BR>"The
purpose of our organisation is to open a case against the Bush
administration," said co-founder Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera reporter
from Sudan who was illegally detained by US authorities for over six
years after being captured while he was working as a cameraman. He was
freed in May 2008....<BR><br><br>The
legal action may be modelled on an action against General Augusto
Pinochet, who was arrested in the UK in 1998 at the request of a
Spanish prosecutor for the alleged murders of Spanish citizens in Chile
under his dictatorship...."Torture is continuing in Guantánamo," al-Haj said. "Obama needs to close Guantánamo immediately."<BR><br><br /><hr />Windows Live SkyDrive: Get 25 GB of free online storage. <a href='http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_SD_25GB_062009' target='_new'>Get it on your BlackBerry or iPhone.</a></body>
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