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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
CONTACT: Amnesty International |
Amnesty International USA Brings Guantanamo Cell Replica to St. Louis
Replica Along with Key Speakers to Highlight Human Rights Organization’s Midwest Annual Regional Conference
WASHINGTON - September 24 - Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) brings its national tour of a life-size Guantanamo prison cell replica to St. Louis, MO, beginning Friday, October 24 until Sunday, October 26. Visitors are encouraged to experience the cell and continue to push the Bush administration to shut down the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The cell is designed to provide all visitors with a tangible way to understand the life of a Guantanamo detainee. The replica includes a steel toilet, florescent lights and a sliding metal door. Many detainees are held in isolation in similar conditions for as long as 23 hours a day.
The cell replica will be on exhibit at the Hilton St. Louis Airport Hotel's parking lot on Friday, October 24 (noon to 7:00 p.m.), Saturday, October 25 (8 a.m. to 7 p.m.) and Sunday, October 26 (9 a.m. to noon). Visitors may tour the cell and record a 30-second reaction video that will be posted on youtube.com and tearitdown.org, as well as sign the global petition to shut Guantanamo down.
In addition, AIUSA will hold its Midwest Regional Conference during the cell replica's exhibition. Key speakers during the three-day event include Congressman William Clay (D-MO 1) and AIUSA executive director Larry Cox. There will also be performances by National Poetry Slam winner and HBO Def Poetry alum Big Poppa E.
EVENT:
Guantanamo Cell Replica
Exhibit in St. Louis
DATE/TIME:
Friday, October 24 (noon
to 7 p.m.), Saturday, October 25 (8 a.m. to 7 p.m.) and Sunday, October
26 (9:00 a.m. to noon)
LOCATION:
Hilton St. Louis Airport
Hotel Parking Lot
10330 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63134
2 Comments so far
Show AllSo when does AI take their cute little exhibit on the US prison circuit?
I bet sll the US prisoners who get gang raped would appreciate the solitude of your own cell. A koran, a straw mat.
I've never been in prison but once spent 5 days in county on a contempt cite. While I was there a white guy got beaten severely- by other white guys- for saying the N word to a black guy. I don't approve of his comment but it shows the racial tensions within, while Gitmo is all Muslim. maybe we could contract out to Israel to keep some of their hardcore orthodox Jews, to keep the gitmo boys on their toes?
I do remember from jail the food was absolute slop, almost unidentifiable. Several times a week a C-130 Hercules delivers vegetarian regional ethnic fare from not one but several locations the detainees originated from.
Do I have a point? Well of course. Why do some Americans scream in outrage at questionable treatment for foreign detainees who have (the majority) sworn to destroy America..... yet the same for Americans, many convicted of drug crimes only, go unnoticed?
Compared to what they'd be getting in jail at home, these gitmo guys have it made. (curious if AI mentions all the attacks on our soldiers who guard them)
the liberal republican
I thought Amnesty Int. was a right ring group of bigots who are funded by the CIA and who's reports have zero credibility...Or is that only when they publish a report critical of Cuba or Venezuela?