Comments on: Shaker Aamer’s Wife Speaks: “Since he has been away there is no colour in life”

By: Free Shaker Aamer « Ten Percent

Free Shaker Aamer « Ten Percent — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:47:07 +0000

[...] information about Shaker can be found here, here, here and here, and you can also email David Miliband and write to Prime Minister Gordon Brown via an [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:17:35 +0000

Thanks, Ahmed and Huda.
And Ahmed, I’d also like to thank you for sharing with me and the readers here some insights into life in Guantanamo. They are always much appreciated.

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:16:14 +0000

On Facebook, Huda Gharir wrote:

That article brought me to tears, she is in so much pain. Families are torn apart. Even if he returns home, too much will be different. The whole family dynamic is over. You become strangers to one another. Not only do the detainees suffer but their whole families and friends and anybody who cares.

By: ahmed errachidi

ahmed errachidi — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:34:47 +0000

hello andy
it makes me feel very sad to read about what shaker’s family going through,i knew shaker from guantanamo he is always thinking of other prisoners.one day i was with him in the punishment block”isolation” they have punished me by taking away my matress blanket, and all i was left with was an iron bad in a cold cell they punish me for a month.at that moment shaker wanted to help me get my things back so he decided along with other prisoners to start a hanger strike as a protest to help me get my things back.and after 4 or 5 days the hanger strike started to spread through other camps which forced the guards to change their mind and give me my staff back.it makes fell so sad to see shaker and other prisoners remind behind the wires of the outside law,and i think those people are still suffering in guantanamo because we allowed it to continue when we allowed obama after bush to carry on with the indefinite detention without charge or trial policy and that is the biggest challenge facing every citizen of the world who believes in human rights,that make it their duty to bring the husband to his wife and the father to this kids ….and to hold those top people who sign executive orders responsible for hijaking democracy and human rights…shaker and others will one day come home, but the question is.. will it be because we have pulled hard ?…