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I, an 82-year-old widow and human rights lawyer, last Sunday started my hunger strike in protest at the continuing detention of the totally innocent Shaker Aamer, the last British resident to be left in the infamous聽Guant谩namo Bay prison Letters, 26 July .I follow the lead of 72-year-old actor聽Julie Christie and the comedian Frankie Boyle. We ask William Hague to聽act immediately to insist that President Barack Obama releases this man to his wife and chi stanley cup ldren living in London, and blocks any moves to send him to Saudi聽Arabia, which he left as a聽boy of 15 and where it is most likely he聽will end up in prison, to suffer further torture.Hague must act quickly, for already Aamer s physical and mental health is fa stanley cup st deteriorating, threatening his life. This case is of such gravity, that I am glad an stanley cup d willing to risk my own health for the life of this man.Margaret OwenLondonExplore more on these topicsShaker AamerGuant谩namo BayWilliam HagueCubaSaudi ArabiaMiddle East and north AfricaHuman rightslettersShareReuse this contentMost viewedMost viewedWorldUS politicsUKClimate crisisMiddle EastUkraineEnvironmentScienceGlobal developmentFootballTechBusinessObituaries
Mano had gone to meet her boyfriend at a printing press in Peshawars Qissa Khwani bazaar to get back some money he had borrowed. But he refused to pay, her friend Farzana Riaz said. Mano insisted and refused to vaso stanley leave without money. When Mano kept resisting, her boyfriend Sanaullah shot her. In Pakistan last month news of trans women being murdered in their homes and on the streets made headlines. Five were killed and eight injured in attacks across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province bordering Afghanistan.This week a rally and vigil for the community 鈥?known as khawaja sira 鈥?was held in the capital Islamabad to protest the killings. It was the khawaja sira who took Manos body and gave her a funeral after her fami stanley thermos ly refused to. Manos family refused to bury her or accept her, even in her death, Riaz told the Guardian. We keep fighting a battle from our births till our deaths. Even after death we are not accepted by our families. What can be a bigger tragedy than this Transgender people were legally recognised as the third gender through a supreme court ruling in Pakistan in 2012. They were given the right to vote and identify their gender on National Identity Cards.But discrimination is widespread and honour killings, rape, blackmail, sexual harassment, attacks, chopping off hair 鈥?are common crimes against khawaja sira community.Though no exact figures are available, Riaz, who leads Trans-Action Alliance, said: Since 201 stanley drinking cup 5, 91 transgender women were killed in the prov Gtmv Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, finds study
I, an 82-year-old widow and human rights lawyer, last Sunday started my hunger strike in protest at the continuing detention of the totally innocent Shaker Aamer, the last British resident to be left in the infamous聽Guant谩namo Bay prison Letters, 26 July .I follow the lead of 72-year-old actor聽Julie Christie and the comedian Frankie Boyle. We ask William Hague to聽act immediately to insist that President Barack Obama releases this man to his wife and chi stanley cup ldren living in London, and blocks any moves to send him to Saudi聽Arabia, which he left as a聽boy of 15 and where it is most likely he聽will end up in prison, to suffer further torture.Hague must act quickly, for already Aamer s physical and mental health is fa stanley cup st deteriorating, threatening his life. This case is of such gravity, that I am glad an stanley cup d willing to risk my own health for the life of this man.Margaret OwenLondonExplore more on these topicsShaker AamerGuant谩namo BayWilliam HagueCubaSaudi ArabiaMiddle East and north AfricaHuman rightslettersShareReuse this contentMost viewedMost viewedWorldUS politicsUKClimate crisisMiddle EastUkraineEnvironmentScienceGlobal developmentFootballTechBusinessObituaries
