http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/diciembre/mar13/51activist.html
Havana. December 13, 2005
U.S. religious activists protest prisoner abuse at Guantánamo military
base
A group of U.S. peace activists who have stationed themselves near the
naval base maintained by the United States in Guantánamo against the will of
the Cuban government have begun a fast demanding that U.S. authorities allow
them to visit the prisoners they say are illegally detained on the base.
"We are hoping to obtain a visit with the prisoners on the U.S.
Guantánamo Naval Base. (The fast) is a form of pressure to obtain our demands,"
Teresa Grady, a member of a religious group from New York, told ANSA.
The group of 25, many of them religious, who belong to the group "Witness
Against Torture," arrived at a Cuban checkpoint near the U.S. base on Sunday,
December 11, after walking more than 100 kilometers during five days from
Santiago de Cuba, 860 kilometers east of Havana.
"We want the prisoners to be freed, because we know that their human
rights are not being respected. We want for them to at least be given trials
and have lawyers to defend them," added Grady, from the group Catholic Worker,
who made her statements to ANSA by cell phone.
The activist said that they plan to return to the United States via the
Dominican Republic next Friday, and highlighted the difficulties they could
face as a result of traveling to Cuba due to the restrictions on such travel
imposed by Washington on its citizens.
"This country has received us with a lot of affection and hospitality,"
added Grady, who explained that she and her companions pass their time waiting
with prayers, meditation and reading.
Asked whether she believed that the group's peaceful actions would have
any impact on her country's government, Grady responded that "laws change
through people's actions."
The United States unilaterally installed its military enclave in
Guantánamo in 1901. Since 2002, it has been holding prisoners of the U.S.
military.
International humanitarian organizations have accused Washington of
illegally holding those prisoners, some 30 of whom are on a hunger strike to
protest the inhuman treatment that they are subjected to on the base.
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