The hacktivist collective Anonymous is set to launch \u2018Operation Guantanamo\u2019 to mark 100 days of the Gitmo hunger strike with a series of \u201ctwitterstorms, email bombs and fax bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Follow RT\u2019s The three day campaign, which kicks off on Friday, is intended In a statement released earlier this month<\/a>, Anonymous expressed their They have instructed supporters of their global action to use the As a part of the twitterstorm, the group has sent out a series of “\u2019The United States is slowly killing men in a prison that \u201c\u201986 detainees have been cleared for release or transfer, but The group has characterized the detention facility as a The Anonymous website also posted phone numbers for the White Inmates at Guantanamo initiated the hunger strike in early February The swelling ranks of those demanding the prison\u2019s closure has Colonel Morris Davis, the former Chief Prosecutor for the terrorism \u201cIt\u2019s been an embarrassment to the country, it\u2019s drained our
\nday-by-day timeline of the Gitmo hunger strike.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nto \u201cRaise Awareness in social media of the human rights
\nviolations going on at Guantanamo, the indefinite detention of
\nprisoners, many of whom have been cleared for release years
\nago.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\nsolidarity with the hunger strikers, vowing they would \u201cshut
\ndown Guantanamo.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\ntag #GTMO17 when the countdown clock<\/a> strikes zero.<\/p>\n
\nlines to be re-tweeted which highlight reported abuses at the
\ncamp.<\/p>\n
\nshould never have existed.\u2019 #GTMO17\u201d<\/i>
“\u2019They\u2019re not going to be brutalized into submission, and I think
\nthe net result will be some of them will die.\u2019 #GTMO17\u201d<\/i>
\u201c\u2019When that tube goes up your nose, your eyes begin to water, as it
\npasses through the back of your skull…\u2019 #GTMO17\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\nefforts to send them home have stalled, making them more
\ndesperate.\u2019 #GTMO17\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\nconcentration camp, casting aspersions on a series of alleged human
\nright\u2019s abuses ranging from force-feeding to the practice of
\ncompulsory cavity searches for detainees prior to any meeting with
\ntheir lawyers. It has further lambasted US President Barack Obama
\nfor wavering on his 2009 promise to shut down the camp, which the
\ncollective described as \u201can ongoing war crime.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
\nHouse, the United States Southern Command and the Department of
\nDefense, urging supporters to \u2018phonebomb\u2019 officials with calls
\nabout the camp.<\/p>\n
\nover alleged mistreatments, including the mishandling of their
\nKorans. Out of the camp\u2019s 166 detainees, 102 are currently taking
\npart in the hunger strike. Thirty of the prisoners are being
\nforce-fed, a practice which the UN human rights office condemned<\/a> as \u201ctorture\u201d<\/i> and a breach of
\ninternational law, and three have been sent to the detainee
\nhospital for observation.<\/p>\n
\namong its ranks not only internet activists, but those who have
\ninside knowledge of the camp and its operations.<\/p>\n
\ntrials at Guantanamo Bay, has become a prominent advocate for the
\ncamp\u2019s closure.<\/p>\n
\ncredibility, it\u2019s wasted our money and it\u2019s time for it to
\nclose.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n