Abbey Road to Guantanamo a different type of Record! On the, London Guantánamo Campaign, four demonstrators dressed in Guantánamo detainee style orange overalls and hoods walking on the famous London Abbey Road zebra pedestrian crossing, are promoting awareness of the inhuman treatment and injustice at The Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp. They are campaigning for the closing of Guantánamo and the other alleged covert torture prisons commissioned in third party countries (that are not signatures to the human rights conventions). Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London, UK, 23/11/2008
"Introduced in 1995 by Bill Clinton's administration, the use of the CIA's extralegal system of extraordinary rendition has accelerated since 2001 and has resulted in the kidnap, transfer to third countries and torture of tens of thousands of individuals. Covering a global network of secret prisons and places such as Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, detainees are held incommunicado and without access to legal or medical professionals. A system of detention and cruel and inhuman forms of punishment has grown up outside of the known confines of international law, leaving detainees vulnerable and exposed to the caprices of their captors and without access to due process, even after their release. With international complicity, including that of the British government, a whole new system of lawlessness has come into being and has been sanctioned by international silence." London Guantanamo Campaign
photo © 2008 Richard Keith Wolff
Produced by London Guantánamo Campaign
london.gtmo@googlemail.com
www.guantanamo.org.uk
post script:
It was an honour to be asked by Aisha Maniar to photograph her idea of Guantanamo prisoners crossing the famous Abbey Road, and to work with such eminent freedom campaigners who remain modestly secret, and who it should be said kept the picture Beatlesque. I just hope those poor guys at Guantanamo will be set free soon. Richard K Wolff (photographer)
Date: 23/11/2008
Location: Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London, England
Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff
