The Wire

Tomorrow the Centre for Constitutional Rights in the United States has organized a world-wide day of fast and vigil as an expression of solidarity with Guantanamo Bay detainees, nearly half of whom have been on a hunger strike since August. In Australia, a coalition of several human rights and Muslim groups, as well as advocates for David Hicks, have also pledged to fast tomorrow. Detainees at Guantanamo Bay have waged life-threatening hunger strikes over several periods since early 2002. The Centre for Constitutional Rights, an organisation founded in 1966 and whose attorney’s represented civil rights demonstrators in the Southern US states, will demand that the US Department of Defense take steps to bring torture, abuse and inhumane treatment to an end at Guantanamo. Tina Foster, attorney with the Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York, told Sarah Greenlees what protestors in the US had planned for tomorrow.