Protesters posed as air stewardesses in their latest bid to win freedom for Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Deghayes, a former Saltdean student held for more than five years without charge.
Members of the Save Omar campaign performed street theatre in Pavilion Gardens, Brighton, to highlight the alleged use of British airspace by CIA "torture flights" transporting prisoners to the Cuban detention facility. They invited shoppers to check in at "Air Guantanamo" and experience its in-flight security arrangements, following a report by the European Parliament detailing British "collusion" with the flights.
Louise Purbrick, one of the stewardesses, said: "The US has moved people around the globe through their network of dark' or secret prisons where degrading acts of torture have occurred."
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