Morocco joins worldwide Guantanamo protest

Following on from our previous story about Guantanamo, we can report that Moroccan protesters have been out in force, gathering before the UN headquarters in Rabat, to call for the Guantanamo camp to be shut down.

Organized by a coalition of Moroccan human rights organizations, protesters chanted slogans denouncing "torture in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib," "secret detentions" and "absence of international legality".

A sit-in followed, with organizers also called for the liberation of all the camp detainees, including the four Moroccans that are still detained by the US authorities in this notorious prison.

According to the Pentagon report, issued on may 16, 2006, there were 759 detainees in Guantanamo prison, including 18 Moroccans, accused of belonging to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

The US administration had previously freed nine Moroccan detainees (five in August 2004, three in February 2006 and one in October 2006), while it transferred five Moroccans, holding double nationality, to their residence countries in Belgium, Great Britain, France and Spain.

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