Amnesty International launches SMS petition to close Guantanamo Bay

Amnesty International USA took out a full page ad in yesterday's New York Times asking citizens or anyone with a US phone number to sign a petition by SMS asking Congress to close Guantanamo Bay.

The add appeared on page A22 "Sign the Pledge, Text "Believe" to 30644.

For the past five years, the United States has held hundreds of men from over 45 countries in Guantanamo Bay. Not a single person has been convicted of a crime, and three men died of apparent suicides. Today marks five years since the US first transferred men to indefinite and arbitrary detention. Five years of lawlessness is enough – demand that the detention facilities at Guantanamo be closed.

[via Personal Democracy Forum]

emily | 8:01 AM | SMS and Politics |
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