[ACTION] Send a Solidarity Message to a Guantanamo Prisoner

Please find below a list put together by Amnesty International of Guantánamo prisoners to write to. The list is not comprehensive and around 180 prisoners remain. Writing letters/sending cards is one of the best ways of supporting the men who have been held without charge or trial for over 8 years. It is a boost to their morale and reminds them that the world has not forgotten them. Receiving lots of letters from complete strangers can make all the difference. It also sends a strong reminder to the American military that they are not forgotten. Please write to as many prisoners as you can. Perhaps as a group – within a family, workplace, religious group, social group, etc. – you can “adopt” a prisoner and agree to write to them individually or together once a month or every two.

Updated List of Guantanamo detainees to whom messages of solidarity can be sent.

The address for letter writing remains:

Detainee name (ISN No.)
Camp Delta
U.S. Naval Base Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Washington, D.C. 20355 USA

Please note that for those still detained at Guantanamo, messages of solidarity are more important now than ever. Bisher al-Rawi, UK resident who was returned to the UK in 2007 has recently explained how AI’s letters of support helped him:

“Amnesty, and what it stands for, is a torch of hope; that is how it was when I was in Guantánamo, when I received letters of support through Amnesty. In that lonely cell with nothing but emptiness to hold a photocopy of a letter or a card and read the words on it meant so much. They opened up the walls and gave me hope, and whispered to me: “You are not forgotten.” “

Please send simple, non-political letters of solidarity to:

NAME
NATIONALITY
DOB/AGE
LANGUAGES

Adel Al Hakeemy
[ISN 168]
Tunisian
28 March 1969
English, Italian or Arabic

Adel Fattough Ali Algazzar
[ISN 369]
Egyptian
40s
English or Arabic

Ahmed Belbacha
[ISN 290]
Algerian/UK resident
13 November 1969
English, French or Arabic

Ali Husein Muhammad Al Shaaban
[ISN 327]
Syria
27 years old
English

Ayman Al Shurafa
[ISN 331]
Palestinian/stateless
1975
English or Arabic

Hedi Hamamy
[ISN 717]
Tunisian
18 January 1969
English, Italian or Arabic

Umar Abdulayev
[257]
Tajik
11 October 1978
Russian, Farsi or simple English

Hisham Sliti
[ISN 174]
Tunisian
2 December 1966
English, Arabic, French or Italian

Omar Khadr
[766]
Canadian
19 October 1986
English

Younus Chekkouri
[ISN 197]
Moroccan
1968
English, French or Arabic.

Ahmed Adnan Ajam
(Abu Rawda)
[ISN 326]
Syrian
1 May 1977
English or Arabic

Nabil Hadjirab
[ISN 238]
Algerian / French resident
29 years old
English, French or Arabic

Shaker Aamer
[ISN 239]
Saudi Arabian (Legal British resident)
42 years old
English or Arabic

Belkacem Bensayeh
[ISN 1001]
Algerian (was living in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
10 September 1962
English, French or Arabic

Fayiz al-Kandari
[ISN 552]
Kuwaiti
3 June 1975
English or Arabic

Fawzi al-Odah
[ISN 232]
Kuwaiti
6 May 1977
English or Arabic

Saifullah Paracha
[ISN 1094]
Pakistani
17 August 1947
English or Urdu

Ravil Mingazov
[ISN 702]
Russian
5 December 1967
Russian or English

Majid Khan
[ISN 10020]
Pakistani/US resident
Approximately 30 years old
English

Ismail Ali Farag al-Bakush
[ISN 708]
Libya
1 July 1968
English or Arabic

Abdel Malik Adbel Wahab
[ISN 37]
Yemeni
Approximately 31 years old
English or Arabic

Abdulsalam al-Hela
[ISN 1463]
Yemeni
30 January 1968
English or Arabic

Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini
[ISN 681]
Yemeni
20 April 1983
English or Arabic

Sanad Ali al-Kazimi
[ISN 1453]
Yemeni
17 February 1970
English or Arabic