Strappado is used by the CIA to torture muslims, as illustrated by the Nazis on polish and jewish Prisoners

Shaker Aamer "I want to hug my children and watch them grow"

" As of today, I've spent more than 11 years in Guantánamo Bay. To be precise, it's been 4,084 long days and nights. I've never been charged with any crime. I've never been allowed to see the evidence that the US once pretended they had against me. It's all secret, even the statements they tortured out of me.

In 2007, roughly halfway through my ordeal, I was cleared for release by the Bush administration. In 2009, under Obama, all six of the US frontline intelligence agencies combined to clear me again. But I'm still here.

Every day in Guantánamo is torture – as was the time they held me before that, in Bagram and Kandahar air force bases, in Afghanistan. It's not really the individual acts of abuse (the strappado – that's the process refined by the Spanish Inquisition where they hang you from your wrists so your shoulders begin to dislocate, the sleep deprivation, and the kicks and punches); it's the combined experience. My favourite book here (I've read it over and over) has been Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell: torture is for torture, and the system is for the system.

( Strappado Inset picture as used by the Nazis to torture polish POW`s)

Questions to be Raised in Commons About Last British Resident In Guantanamo

On 11 April Shaker spoke to his lawyer, Reprieve director, Clive Stafford Smith, and described the treatment to which he has been subjected since deciding to strike.

He said that "They are killing us, so it is hard to keep calm…in reality I am dying inside."

Stafford Smith said: "Shaker's own government has been saying that they want him back home to his family where he belongs; yet unfortunately there are subversive forces even in the UK who have a different agenda.

"Some MI6 agents want him to go to Saudi Arabia where he won't be able to talk any more to the Metropolitan police about all the things he has witnessed. But a man who has been effectively declared innocent can not be locked away forever to save national embarrassment. Shaker must be returned to London at once."

The Foreign Office must surely explain why Aamer is not being released.

British Resident Shaker Aamer may die in Guantanamo torture facility due to secret detention deal

“I’ve never been charged with any crime. I’ve never been allowed to see the evidence that the US once pretended they had against me. It’s all secret, even the statements they tortured out of me.” “I’ve never been charged with any crime. I’ve never been allowed to see the evidence that the US once pretended they had against me. It’s all secret, even the statements they tortured out of me.”

" Every day in Guantánamo is torture – as was the time they held me before that, in Bagram and Kandahar air force bases, in Afghanistan. It’s not really the individual acts of abuse (the strappado – that’s the process refined by the Spanish Inquisition where they hang you from your wrists so your shoulders begin to dislocate, the sleep deprivation, and the kicks and punches); it’s the combined experience. My favourite book here (I’ve read it over and over) has been Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell: torture is for torture, and the system is for the system. "

Shaker Aamer

Clive Stafford Smith, his British lawyer, concedes that for the first time Aamer, widely regarded as a robust and resourceful character, has started to raise the possibility that he might die inside Guantánamo Bay.

He recently told Stafford Smith, who is director of the legal charity Reprieve, to brief his wife that he might not make it out alive after all..

100,000 British Citizens Call for the Release Of Shaker Aamer

Shaker Aamer, a British resident who has languished in the US gulag for 11 years without charge and trial, is currently on hunger strike in protest against his treatment amid growing fears over his wellbeing.

Campaigners said today the petition would add to pressure on the British government to live up to its commitment to secure his freedom.

A spokesman for the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign said: "This public outcry must not be ignored. The government must act now to get Shaker home to his family and friends in Britain.

Shaker Aamer has been held in Guantanamo without trial or charge for 11 long years.

PLEASE SHARE URGENT REQUEST From Ray Silk of the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign

EVERYONE PLEASE EMAIL ALISTAIR BURT MP, SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND FOREIGN SECRETARY WILLIAM HAGUE MP AND DEMAND THE RELEASE OF SHAKER AAMER AND THE CLOSURE OF GUANTANAMO

William Hague private.office@fco.gsi.gov.uk
Alistair Burt burta@parliament.uk

ask them to get Shaker home NOW or he will DIE.
Shaker has been denied WATER for 24 HOURS at a time after weeks on hunger strike.
His body will not be able to take this, his organs will begin to shut down.

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..