Save Omar Beach Sculpture

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Save Omar Beach Sculpture

If you want to be part of a community arts event that will create a large but simple stone sculpture on Brighton beach calling for Justice for Omar Deghayes, held without charge or trial for four years in Guantanamo Bay, please meet at: 2pm Saturday 10th March at the Palace Pier, Brighton

All welcome, especially children, no experience necessary

If you can put up a poster advertising this event in your local community hall, nearby cafe or shop, please call or text Louise on 07799362 884.

[(*_Hamzah]

What is the Omar Beach Sculpture, do you have a pic of it?

[Unique Muslimah]

I think you're meant to be going there to build the structure Akhi..

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Yes, I'm with you people now

[Nazias]

Yes, I'm with you people now

:up: Alhumdumlillah!

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Save Omar: Update

On Saturday 10 March, supporters of Omar Deghayes, Brighton man held in Guantanamo Bay without charge or trial, will create a large-scale beach sculpture intended to draw attention to his plight. The sculpture sketch out Omar’s prison camp number, 727, and will consist of one thousand seven hundred and forty stones, one to mark every day that he has been detained.

One of the Save Omar activists helping to create the sculpture, Sue Williams, stated:

“ Like all good landscape art we will respect the environment so no stones will be removed from the beach. In turn, we ask people walking on the beach to respect our sculpture and, if they wish, to add a stone a day so that the sculpture becomes a way of marking the time that Omar has lost in a prison, which everybody recognises should close.”

Omar Deghayes’ brother, Abubaker stated:

“People in Brighton have stood by my brother, shown compassion and sense of justice. I hope that the Foreign Office and Home office will do the same.”

Press contact: Louise 07799 362 884

Notes: Save Omar is a diverse group of Brighton residents who have joined together to call for the release and return of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes, who has lived with his family in the seaside city since the 1980s when he fled persecution in Libya.

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* The 727 Beach Sculpture lasted about a week and has now been remade in time for the busy Easter bank holiday with a sign explaining that 727 is Omar's Guantanamo number and asking people to add a stone. If you are walking on he beach over the holiday please check it out. It is on the part of the Beach directly opposite the Queen's Hotel.

* At the last Save Omar meeting we discussed the implications of Bisher al-Rawi's release for Omar noting the role that Bisher's MP Ed Davey had in his release. We are following this up with a another attempt at provoking the MPs into action, writing to candidates in the local elections about what they can do for Omar.

* Save Omar activists are invited to a meeting discusssing "What Next?" and showing of the film "Omar Deghayes: The Search for Justice" between 4pm and 6pm Saturday 5 May Gladstone School, Dollis Hill, London. The meeting is organised by Jamil el-Banna's family and supporters who like Omar's family are hoping for his release now that the Foreign Office has shown it can act for a British resident.

* Stalls in Gardner Street. Apologies to anyone who turned up last Saturday. Since no-one called Martin, stall organiser (mob 07985 408124) he left early. Give him a quick text if you can join a group of Save Omar activists, even for half an hour to hand out leaflets or sell badges, tomorrow (Saturday 7 April) between 11am and 1pm. Stall will return to their normal time of 12-2pm from Saturday 14th April.