Made in Britain: The preferred shackles of torturers
guardian: In the late 18th century the company made "Nigger collars" for restraining slaves in America. Today, it makes the shackles that hold the inmates of Guantanamo Bay.
Yesterday, the Birmingham handcuff and baton manufacturer Hiatt & Company was picketed by human rights activists wearing orange jumpsuits in protest at its continued export to the US of handcuffs and other products used to hold prisoners at Camp X-Ray on the US naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba.
In a letter published today in the Guardian, local Birmingham MPs Clare Short and Lynne Jones, and a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, explain that they are asking Hiatt to "commit to voluntarily and permanently [banning] all further exports to the US military, and hence to Guantanamo Bay, given the notorious abuses practised there". Read more
Yesterday, the Birmingham handcuff and baton manufacturer Hiatt & Company was picketed by human rights activists wearing orange jumpsuits in protest at its continued export to the US of handcuffs and other products used to hold prisoners at Camp X-Ray on the US naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba.
In a letter published today in the Guardian, local Birmingham MPs Clare Short and Lynne Jones, and a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, explain that they are asking Hiatt to "commit to voluntarily and permanently [banning] all further exports to the US military, and hence to Guantanamo Bay, given the notorious abuses practised there". Read more
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