Word: guantanamo
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BOSTON--About 20 Harvard students and Haitian Cantabrigians gathered yesterday in front of the JFK Building, home of the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) offices, to protest the detainment of HIV-positive Haitian refugees in Guantanamo...
...Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay have been on a hunger strike since January 29, said Paul E. Butler, a second year student at the Law School and member of the Black Law Students Association. The strike has been picked up by Jesse Jackson, who fasted for ten days, and by John Cardinal O'Connor, Butler said...
However, Kraut said the coalition is concentrating on the release of the Guantanamo Bay detainees instead of the other issues mentioned in the letter. "That's not our focus at all. The only issues are the 264," he said...
Thirty Yale and Harvard law School students rallied on the steps of Memorial Church yesterday to protest President Clinton's refusal to release HIV-positive Haitian refugees who are being held in a camp on Guantanamo...
...vote was a setback not just for Jackson but for Bill Clinton as well. During the presidential campaign, Clinton said he'd change the policy. Jackson plans to continue his fast, which was inspired by the more than 200 Haitians at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are also shunning food in protest. Meanwhile, bad news keeps rolling in for Haitians. In Miami a Haitian man surrendered to authorities after hijacking a DC-3. And off the coast of the luckless island, a ferryboat that may have been carrying as many as 1,000 people (nonrefugees traveling...