House of Commons support for Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes is growing.
More than 40 MPs have now signed an Early Day Motion tabled by Brighton Kemptown MP Des Turner calling on the Government to pressure the US to release Mr Deghayes. The 36-year-old father and law graduate from Saltdean has been imprisoned without charge in the military jail for three years.
Dr Turner's motion says: "This House calls on the Government clearly to condemn the inhumane treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and to urge the United States Administration either to charge them, to prosecute them under due process of law, to keep them in acceptable prison conditions, or release them if there is no reasonable evidence against them, and in particular to make representations to the United States Administration for the release of Omar Deghayes, a Libyan national and refugee normally resident in Brighton Kemptown constituency."
Recent additions to the 43 signatures include Lewes Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker and East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton.
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