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Return Shaker Aamer to the UK

Submitted on Friday 10th February 2012

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Return Shaker Aamer to the UK

Additional Information

Shaker Aamer is a British resident with a British wife and children who has been imprisoned without trial by the US in Bagram Airforce Base and Guantanamo Bay for over ten years. The Foreign Secretary and the Foreign Office must undertake urgent new initiatives to achieve the immediate transfer of Shaker Aamer to the UK from continuing indefinite detention in Guantanamo Bay.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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Government Response

The Government responded to this petition on Thursday 14th June 2012

The creator of this e-petition has requested that, due to an error made when starting the petition, it be closed for signatures and replaced with a new e-petition with a corrected closing date.

We are not able to transfer existing signatures to the new e-petition. If you wish to add your signature to the replacement e-petition, it is available at: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/33133

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