A group of hardy activists have braved the elements by sitting in a makeshift cage outside Kings College in aid of human rights worldwide.

Cambridge’s Amnesty International group have been collecting signatures on cloth men all weekend – including the infamous 8-hour overnight ‘grave shift’ – to garner support for Shaker Aamer, the camp’s last British resident and father of four, who is still being held in Guantanamo Bay, after 9 years’ incarceration without charge or trial.

According to a report by human rights charity Reprieve, Shaker was arrested while working for an Islamic charity in Afghanistan, where he was captured and handed to the US. He has not yet been released, or even offered a proper explanation for his imprisonment. It is speculated that the duration of his detention may be partly due to his involvement in hunger strikes against the camp’s conditions, for which he was allegedly placed in solitary confinement.

Amnesty (Cambridge) are appealing for him to be either released, or charged with an offence and given a fair trial. More broadly, Amnesty UK are calling for the shutting down of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, publicly appealing to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to follow through on Obama’s promise to close the camp in 2009.