Illegal Trip Protests Guantanamo Prison
More than two dozen activists from Baltimore and elsewhere have arrived in Cuba to protest the U.S. detention-and-interrogation operation at Guantanamo Bay.The activists, most of them Christian, have broken U.S. law by traveling to the communist nation. They were planning to set out this morning for the Navy base in southeastern Cuba where the United States is holding about 500 foreign terror suspects without prisoner-of-war status or criminal charges.
They expect the 50-mile march from the city of Santiago to take four or five days. If they reach the installation – which is guarded by U.S. and Cuban checkpoints and surrounded by a minefield – they will demand to see the detainees.
