Lawyer Ramzi Kassem said he had learned from a client held at the US naval base that the protests had been going on for the past 13 days to mark the ninth anniversary of the opening of the facility.

“Most of the remaining prisoners in Camps 5 and 6 at Guantanamo have joined together to peacefully protest their indefinite imprisonment with a sit-in and signs,” Kassem’s Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said.

The prisoners are refusing to return to their cells for the mandatory nightly lockdown and have been sleeping in the recreation yard and in common areas, the center said.

A Pentagon spokeswoman said “peaceful protests are not uncommon” at Guantanamo, adding that in the past detainees had protested the frequency of phone calls, the meal plan variety and the size of recreation areas.

She said the latest protests were confined to Camp 6, reserved for the “most compliant” prisoners, and that detainees were protesting in different ways, with some returning to their cells but leaving the doors open.

The prisoner who told Kassem of the protests, Said Abdulhadi, has spent nearly nine years in the jail on the US naval base in Cuba.

“We hope that guards, military officials and visiting delegations of Red Cross representatives, congressional members and journalists hear our cry for freedom,” Abdulhadi reportedly told Kassem.

Kassem added the prisoners have made signs and posters in English, now plastered on their cell blocks, asking “Where are the Courts?”, “What About our Rights?”, and “Where is Democracy?”

Another Guantanamo detainee, who asked to remain anonymous, told the lawyer: “The construction work going on here is giving us the impression that we are going to be here forever.”

The prison was opened on January 11, 2002 to house suspects rounded up in the US “war on terror” launched in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Today a total of 173 men are still housed in the complex, which Obama has vowed to close. The administration has run into a series of legal hurdles and the timetable to shut the jail has been indefinitely pushed back.

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See also:

AP Exclusive: Under desk, CIA found video of 9/11 plotter being interrogated in secret prison.
When the CIA destroyed its cache of 92 videos of two other al-Qaida operatives, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri, being waterboarded in 2005, officials believed they had wiped away all of the agency’s interrogation footage. But in 2007, a staffer discovered a box tucked under a desk in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and pulled out the Binalshibh tapes.

Profile: Ramzi bin al-Shibh (History Commons)
a.k.a. Binalshibh, Ahad Sabet

December 8, 2008: Five High-Value Detainees Say They Wish to Plead Guilty
Five high-value detainees being held at Guantanamo tell a military tribunal they wish to plead guilty to charges related to the 9/11 attacks, but refuse to enter a guilty plea at this time. The five are alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM); Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who helped coordinate the attacks; Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, who assisted some of the 19 hijackers in Asia; and Khallad bin Attash, who attended a meeting with two of the hijackers in January 2000.

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