User:Geo Swan/gitmo/Jamal Kiyemba

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'''Jamal Kiyemba''' is a [[Uganda]]n citizen who is detained in [[Camp Delta]], in the [[United States|US]] naval base at [[Guantanamo Bay]], [[Cuba]]. Kiyemba was a resident of the [[United Kingdom]]. Kiyemba's lawyer is prominent UK human-rights lawyer [[Clive Stafford Smith]]. According to Smith Kiyemba was a participant in the first [[hunger strike]]. Smith says Kiyemba told him that the detainees ended the strike when camp authorities plead for ten days to bring the camp into compliance with the standards of the [[Geneva Conventions]]. The detainees ended the first hunger strike on July 28, 2005. Many detainees started the second hunger strike on August 8, 2005 -- ten days after they ended the strike and the camp authorities had not lived up to their promises. :''"The administration promised that if we gave them 10 days, they would bring the prison into compliance with the Geneva conventions. They said this had been approved by [[Donald Rumsfeld]] himself in Washington DC. As a result of these promises, we agreed to end the strike on July 28.'' :''"It is now August 11. They have betrayed our trust (again). [[Hisham Sliti|Hisham]] from [[Tunisia]] was savagely beaten in his interrogation and they publicly desecrated the [[Qu'ran desecration|Qur'an]] (again). Saad from Kuwait was [[immediate reaction force (Guantanamo)|ERF'd]] [visited by the Extreme Reaction Force] for refusing to go (again) to interrogation because the female interrogator had sexually humiliated him (again) for 5 hours _ Therefore, the strike must begin again."'' ==External links== *[http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.631158.0.terror_camp_mans_protest.php Terror camp man’s protest], [[This is Local London]], September 16, 2005