Signatures are urgently needed for a new petition which could help Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes.

Jackie Chase, a leading campaigner for Mr Deghayes, and Caroline Lucas, Green Party national speaker and MEP, have secured a meeting with the US ambassador to the EU in Brussels on Friday.

They will urge him to look at Mr Deghayes' case, who is in the tenth week of a hunger strike.

An online petition has been launched to support the cause.

The Save Omar Deghayes petition can be found at www.gopetition.com/online/7331.html