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Guantanamo Activists Arrive in Havana

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Radio Havana Cuba
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US, International Guantanamo Activists Arrive in Havana

Havana, January 6 (RHC) - A group of defenders of peace, including Cindy
Sheehan, mother of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, arrived in Cuba on
Saturday as part of a campaign to demand the immediate closing of
Guantánamo prison.

Sheehan is accompanied by a former prisoner of that facility -- illegally
located in Cuban territory -- as well as attorneys and relatives of some
detainees. The group will call for increased international actions
against the U.S.-run prison and against torture.

The delegation will protest the existence of the prison and will give a
conference on the abuses committed there on the International Day for the
Closing of Guantánamo, slated for Thursday, January 11th.

Asif Igbal, released without charges after years of abuse, and Zohra
Zewawi, whose son was jailed, tortured and mutilated in Guantánamo, are
also in Cuba on the delegation.

The group will be in Cuba until next Saturday, January 13th. Their
program includes a visit to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Center, the Latin American School of Medicine, the Cuban Institute of
Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and other places of interest.

They will travel to the eastern province of Guantánamo on Thursday to
express their rejection of torture and will participate in a press
conference to be held in Havana, the Cuban capital.

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