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	<description>Investigative journalist, author, filmmaker and Guantanamo expert</description>
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		<title>Three UK Protests to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Shaker Aamer&#8217;s Arrival at Guantánamo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 14 marks the 10th anniversary of the arrival at Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer, who is now the last British resident in the prison, but was once one of 15 British citizens and residents held at Guantánamo. Shaker&#8217;s story is one that I have told and retold over the years, including in the documentary film, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/09/three-uk-protests-to-mark-the-10th-anniversary-of-shaker-aamers-arrival-at-guantanamo/</link>
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		<title>Life After Guantánamo: The Suffering of the Uighurs in Palau</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of Guantánamo&#8217;s Uighurs has always been one of monstrous injustice &#8212; as well as a monstrous failure of intelligence, and an equally monstrous failure when it comes to the US government taking responsibility for its own mistakes. This is not a unique occurrence in Guantánamo, of course, but it has long been emblematic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/07/life-after-guantanamo-the-suffering-of-the-uighurs-in-palau/</link>
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		<title>Video: Guantánamo Panel Discussion in Washington D.C. with Andy Worthington and Lawyers Tom Wilner, Darold Killmer and Mari Newman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I posted a short video of a speech I gave on January 10, while I was visiting the US for events marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, prior to a screening of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with Polly Nash) at a branch of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/06/video-guantanamo-panel-discussion-in-washington-d-c-with-andy-worthington-and-lawyers-tom-wilner-darold-killmer-and-mari-newman/</link>
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		<title>Save the NHS: A Doctor&#8217;s Moving Defence of Her Profession, and How Care is More Important Than Budgets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I published an article about the Tory-led coalition government&#8217;s ongoing attempts to destroy the NHS, after the health minister Andrew Lansley issued a new set of amendments to his Health and Social Care Bill, in an attempt to suppress dissent in the House of Lords, which only succeeded in prompting GPs and physiotherapists to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/06/save-the-nhs-a-doctors-moving-defence-of-her-profession-and-how-care-is-more-important-than-budgets/</link>
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		<title>Save the NHS: 100,000 GPs and Physiotherapists Call for Health Bill to be Scrapped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the coalition government introduced its Health and Social Care Bill, it has been obvious that what was planned was nothing less than the destruction of the NHS as a universal healthcare provider, and the gradual privatisation of the service, leading to greater profits for private companies and, simultaneously, cuts to services. Understanding this, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/05/save-the-nhs-100000-gps-and-physiotherapists-call-for-health-bill-to-be-scrapped/</link>
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		<title>Video: In Washington D.C., Andy Worthington Discusses Protests in Guantánamo, and the Campaign to Free Shaker Aamer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 10, while I was visiting the US for events marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the World Can&#8217;t Wait, the campaigning organization responsible for my visit, hosted a screening of the documentary film, &#8220;Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo&#8221; (which I co-directed with Polly Nash) at a branch of Busboys [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/04/video-in-washington-d-c-andy-worthington-discusses-protests-in-guantanamo-and-the-campaign-to-free-shaker-aamer/</link>
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		<title>Last Call to Sign the White House Petition to Close Guantánamo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, on January 11, I was involved in two particular projects &#8212; firstly, the establishment of a new campaign and website, &#8220;Close Guantánamo,&#8221; designed to raise awareness of the continuing injustice of Guantánamo, and, in particular, the injustice of continuing to hold 89 of the remaining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/03/last-call-to-sign-the-white-house-petition-to-close-guantanamo/</link>
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		<title>Former Guantánamo Prisoner Adel Al-Gazzar Is Freed in Egypt After Six Months in Custody</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When looking at the stories of the released Guantánamo prisoners, one of the most tragic individual stories of last year was that of Adel al-Gazzar (aka Adel El-Gazzar), a former officer in the Egyptian army, who lost a leg in US custody and spent eight years in Guantánamo. Adel returned to Egypt last June, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/02/former-guantanamo-prisoner-adel-al-gazzar-is-freed-in-egypt-after-six-months-in-custody/</link>
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		<title>Why Algeria Is Not A Safe Country for the Repatriation of Guantánamo Prisoners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since July 2008, when the first Algerian prisoners were repatriated from Guantánamo, the position taken by the US government &#8212; first under George W. Bush, and, for the last three years, under Barack Obama &#8212; has been that Algeria is a safe country for the repatriation of prisoners cleared for release. Lawyers and NGOs aware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/01/why-algeria-is-not-a-safe-country-for-the-repatriation-of-guantanamo-prisoners/</link>
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		<title>Obama Considers Repatriating Foreign Prisoners from Bagram</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, foreign prisoners, seized in other countries, began to arrive in the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. Some were held in a secretive part of the prison, and had often passed through other secret facilities in Afghanistan or elsewhere. The majority of these prisoners ended up in Guantánamo, but some were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/01/31/obama-considers-repatriating-foreign-prisoners-from-bagram/</link>
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