We undertake to press urgently for the closure of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and for the closure of other centres where people are detained without charge or trial as part of the "war on terror".
We undertake to press for all those detained in these prisons either to be charged with recognisably criminal offences and tried in fair and open courts, or else to be released to safe countries.
As people living in Britiain, we recognise a particular responsibility to act on behalf of detainees who had been based in Britain prior to their detention, and we undertake to do all that we can on their behalf.
We believe that the British government has a duty to press in the strongest possible terms for its ally, the US, to close the Guantanamo prison camp and its other detention centres, which offend against international standards of justice, decency and humanity.
We also believe that the British government has a duty to make vigorous representations to the US on behalf of people detained in the US who have been resident in Britain. Most people in this situation are refugees, either in a legal or a practical sense, and have no other country to which they can turn for help.
We deplore the British government's continued inaction on these matters and we undertake to do all that we can to press the British government to take action. We will ourselves use whatever channels are available to us locally, nationally and internationally to demand justice for people unjustly held by the US as part of its "war on terror".
Tommy Sheridan, MSP (Solidarity); M ark Ballard, MSP (Scottish Green Party); Sandra White, MSP (Scottish National Party); Donald Gorrie, MSP (Scottish Liberal Democrats); Frances Curran, MSP (Scottish Socialist Party); Naomi McAuliffe (on behalf of Amnesty International); Richard Haley (on behalf of Scotland Against Criminalising Communities); Julia Davidson (on behalf of Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition); and 18 others.
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