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A Worcestershire-based Belfast doctor, Dr. David Nicholl, has reignited a campaign for the release of the last UK resident being held at Guantanamo Bay, Shaker Aamer, who was held in Cuba prison exactly 13 years ago without charge today. Aamer, who lived in south London with his wife and four children, was suspected of fighting for al-Qaida but he has denied the allegation always. He was cleared for release in 2007.
Dr Nicholl spoke to Belfast Telegraph and highlighted that it was outrageous that Mr Aamer has not been freed. He explained that “if you even care nothing about Shaker Aamer – the allegations he was present with Al-Libi, whose torture testimony was used as the false basis for the assertion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction – then we must see him back in a British court as a witness of torture.” In addition to that, Dr. Nichol alleged that “the other allegation is he received a particularly brutal interrogation on the night of June 9, 2006 when three other prisoners at Guantanamo allegedly committed suicide, but according to a former guard Joe Hickman they were murdered.”
Back in 2005, Dr Nicholl ran the London Marathon in an orange jumpsuit in order to sympathize with detainees at the notorious US military prison. He stated that “I demonstrated the force-feeding process outside the American Embassy in London and I went on hunger strike for five days in 2013,” adding that “I tried to present a letter at Downing Street but they wouldn’t let me in.” He alleged that “next up is running the London Marathon in April for Amnesty who are supporting the campaign to free him.”
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