• September 2006, Aamers attorneys filed a 16 page motion arguing for his removal from isolation in Guantanamo Bay prison. • In January 2010, his 12-year-old daughter Johina wrote a letter to Gordon Brown asking for his release. • August, 2010, protesters disrupted a meeting that discussed plans to create a US Embassy near Battersea, the home of Aamer. • On 11 December 2010, hundreds took to the streets in London near the US embassy to demand Aamers release. • In February 2011, Amnesty International calls Aamers ongoing incarceration a mockery of justice and denounces the cruel limbo he has been left in. At the same time The Guardian reported that people had sent 12.000 emails to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UK MPs in support of Aamer. • In her 2011 album In The Current Climate, singer-songwriter Sarah Gillespie sings an imaginary first person song of Aamer entitled How The West was Won. Gillespie devoted the track to Aamer in the CD booklet. • In May 2011, Students of University of St Andrews protest for the release of Aamer. • In early 2012, approaching Aamers completion of ten years imprisonment in Guantánamo, campaigners stepped up efforts for his release. Among them, Jane Ellison, Tory MP for Battersea, wrote to Barack Obama to urge Aamers release. • February 2012, marking the 10th anniversary of Aamers detention, a series of protests took place in England whilst a hunger strike was undertaken in Guantanamo. • In December 2012, the comedian Frankie Boyle donated £50,000 to Aamers legal fund for suits against MI6. • By April 2013, 117,384 British citizen or UK residents had signed an online petition to pressure the UK Government for Aamers release. • In July 2013, Clive Stafford-Smith, Frankie Boyle and Julie Christie went on a sequential hunger strike in support of Shaker Aamer and his release. • In August 2013 the singer PJ Harvey released the song Shaker Aamer on the subject of the detainee
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