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July 16, 2009

Bagram Prisoners Stage Mass-Protest
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In other news from Afghanistan, prisoners at the U.S.-run Bagram
military jail have been staging a mass protest over the past two weeks
against their indefinite captivity According to family members and
attorneys, dozens of prisoners have refused to leave their cells since
July 1st. News of the protest comes one day after it was revealed a
group of Guantanamo Bay prisoners staged a two-week sit-in last month.



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