Shaker Aamer has been imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay Camp for 8 years under brutal conditions, he has never been charged with a crime, accused of any wrongdoing, nor has he been tried in a court of law. Shaker Aamer has been cleared for release from the Prison camp at Guantanamo , however the American administration refuse to release him to his home in the UK to be reunited with his British wife and children.

In Shaker`s own words " I am slowly dying here everyday, mentally and physically. This is happening to all of us. We have been ignored, locked up for many years.. I have problems, many problems from the filthy yellow water.. I have lung problems from the chemicals they spread on the floor.. I am already athritic at the age of 40 because i sleep on a steel bed and they use freezing air conditioning as part of interrogation process. I have ruined eyesight from the permenant 24 hour flurescent lights. I have tinnitus in my ears from the perpetual noise.. I have ulcers and constipation from the food. I have been made paranoid i trust nobody not even my lawyer "

Speakers, politicians, journalists and concerned members of the public gathered yesterday in London, to call for the release of British Resident Shaker Aamer. Around 300 people gathered at a public meeting at Battersea Arts Centre, where Shaker`s UK lawer Gareth Pierce called everyone to take note that "This Is an Emergency" and indeed it is.

Helping refugees put Shaker where he loved to be – as counsel, listening and advising. But in the end, it was his dedication to the welfare of others that led to his detention in Guantánamo Bay."

He was working in Kabul, when the US bombing began in October 2001. The US were offering vast sums, for "bad guys", in a country where people were in need of so much, consequently, uncounted numbers were taken by the unscrupulous, for financial reward. "Soldiers Arrived, took him away at gunpoint, having stripped him of all his belongings. Sold to various groups he was repeatedly beaten, until driven out of Kabul one night, with four other arab prisoners. He was convinced they were about to be executed. Hearing a helicopter and American voices his relief was unbounded, it was also ill founded.."

Shaker Aamers Children Make A Plea For His Safe Return

" UK Resident Shaker Aamer has been held in the harshest of conditions in Guantánamo without charge or trial, for eight years - this is concentration camp justice. Our Government has recognised his legal right to return and has requested that the US release him. Shaker was cleared for release by the US in 2007. His only wish is to return to his home in the UK, he has a home and family in the UK. Shaker’s treatment is in breach of his human rights, he is the victim of gross injustice. His health has deteriorated and his life is at risk. His wife and four young children, who are British citizens, are being denied the right to a family life which should be guaranteed under international law "

John Clossick, from the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign (SSAC)

The Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations that MI5 was complicit in the torture, in US custody in Afghanistan, of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident still held at Guantánamo. In the High Court, Richard Hermer QC, counsel for Aamer, told Mr. Justice Sullivan that Met officers had visited his solicitors, Birnberg Peirce, on Wednesday. “It became apparent they are now investigating allegations raised by Mr. Aamer into the alleged complicity of the UK security service in his mistreatment,” he said, adding that the police had made an application to the court “for release of relevant documents” relating to Aamer’s allegations that the confessions he made in US custody were obtained through torture. Shaker Aamer has been cleared for release from Guantánamo since 2007, but has not been freed, despite British requests for his return

The Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, hold " A Day for Shaker Aamer " in Battersea

British Resident Shaker Aamer has been held without charge or trial for over eight years in Guantanamo in the harshest of conditions. All the other UK Guantanamo detainees have now returned home. They have all suffered years of cruel and inhuman treatment as victims of the US policy of abduction, rendition to torture and indefinite detention in the so-called “war on terror.” Despite President Obama’s executive order to close Guantanamo by January 2010, many detainees, including Shaker, are still being held there without hope of an end to their ordeal.

Meanwhile, the CIA prison in Afghanistan, Bagram is the new Guantanamo. Hundreds of detainees are locked away, tortured and abused in absolute denial of all their human rights. They have been silenced but it is up to us to demand an end to their detention and torture..