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Demonstration in Seattle to Close Down Guantanamo Now
28-Jan-2008
The ACLU of Washington, Amnesty International, World Can't Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime, and others, sponsored a rally in downtown Seattle to protest the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to demand that all prisoners be charged and tried immediately, or else released, and that the prison be shut down. Tom Conlon reports.
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