Fifth Anniversary Of The Opening Of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility

EDM number 561 in 2006-07, proposed by Sarah Teather on 08/01/2007.

That this House regretfully marks the fifth anniversary on 11th January 2007 of the opening of Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility by the Bush administration, where many of the key principles of American justice have been broken; notes that amongst the remaining detainees there are nine British residents who continue to be denied access to a free and fair trial; considers this to be in breach of every fundamental legal principle and directly at odds with the very values the war on terror purports to defend; notes the recent FBI report alleging multiple occasions of degrading and abusive mistreatment of prisoners at the hands of US interrogators; supports the American Civil Liberties Union's call for a more comprehensive investigation into the scope of abuses and the root causes and policies that led to them; condemns the Government's failure to provide consular assistance to British residents currently held in Guantánamo Bay; and calls on both the Government and the international community to do all in its power to urge the USA to close Guantánamo Bay so that British residents can be returned home and either charged with a crime or released.

This motion has been signed by a total of 64 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.