In a desperate message from Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, told one of his lawyers by phone, “The administration is getting ever more angry and doing everything they can to break our hunger strike. Honestly, I wish I was dead.” Shaker, who was cleared for release from the prison under President Bush in 2007 and under President Obama in 2009, was speaking to Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the legal action charity Reprieve, and his words were reported in the Observer, which also noted his claims that “the US authorities are systematically making the regime more hardline to try to defuse the strike, which now involves almost two-thirds of the detainees.” - See more at: andyworthington.co.uk/2013/06/24/i-wish-i-was-dead-shaker-aamer-says-from-guantanamo-as-david-cameron-writes-to-his-daughter/#sthash.9U0OMju0.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:45:07 +0000
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