Guantanamo Bay Vigil and Anniversary Party

4.30.00pm GMT Wed 10th Jan 2007

Prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay

On Tuesday Ed Davey used a Parliamentary debate to highlight the case of a constituent of his who is being detained in Guantanamo Bay. There is a vigil for British residents in Guantanamo Bay tonight in London and a Birthday Party in Birmingham tomorrow.

The Vigil takes place at 6pm on Richmond Terrace SW1 (opposite Downing Street). If its not too late try and get along.

There will also be an Anniversary event in Birmingham entitled 'Break the chains, close down Guantánamo' at Hiatts, 111-115 Baltimore Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 1DN at 1.30pm. Human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, comedian and activist, Mark Thomas and members of the Birmingham Guantánamo campaign, Reprieve and Amnesty International will deliver a 'birthday cake' to Hiatts of Birmingham on the 5th anniversary of the opening of the infamous detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The activists will arrive at Hiatts on a 7.5 tonne truck with folk band "Seize the Day", who will perform their satirical song "Do the Shackle Shuffle at Club X-Ray" and "Happy Birthday" to 'celebrate' the 5th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay's camp on January 11th, 2002. Protesters will be dressed in the infamous orange Guantanamo jump suits, ready-shackled, and will dance (or shuffle) as the band performs. A 'birthday cake' with a Guantánamo detainee inside will be presented to Hiatts who manufacture the shackles used by the US military in the notorious Guantánamo Bay over the last 5 years. Hiatts' has never missed a business opportunity in over 200 years from supplying collars to the slave trade to shackles used during torture to various unsavoury regimes.