In fear of Anonymous, the U.S. military has restricted access to wireless internet at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
According to a report issued by the Associated Press on Monday, May 20, officials responsible for the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have shut down WiFi access throughout the camp and banned the use of any social networks following threats from the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous.
In solidarity with the Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, Anonymous launched Operation Guantanamo ( #OpGTMO ) last week. The operation is meant to raise awareness of the human rights violations currently going on at Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
The following is an excerpt from a press release issued by Anonymous regarding Operation Guantanamo ( #OpGTMO ):
With no hope for justice, over 100 men who have been held and tortured for years have gone on a hunger strike. … Prisoners have died suddenly, violently, and suspiciously. All inmates in Guantanamo Bay have been locked in solitary confinement. Some are being force fed, an international crime. These men face the prospect of a terrible death in prison despite many of them having been cleared for release years ago.
Guantanamo Bay must be closed at once, and the prisoners should be either returned to their home countries or given a fair trial in a federal court. Guantanamo Bay is an ongoing war crime. Anonymous will no longer tolerate this atrocity.
A majority of prisoners currently at Guantanamo — 103 out of 166 — are on hunger strike to protest their conditions and their indefinite detention.
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