Cageprisoners
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| Formation | October 2003 |
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| Type | Advocacy organisation with a focus on Muslim detainees |
| Purpose | To raise awareness of the plight of the detainees held as part of the War on Terror and to "empower communities impacted by the War on Terror" |
| Headquarters | London, England |
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Director
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Dr. Adnan Siddiqui |
| Website | www |
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Formerly called
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Cageprisoners |
CAGE, formerly Cageprisoners Ltd, is a London-based advocacy organisation which aims to "empower communities impacted by the War on Terror" and "highlight and campaign against state policies pertaining to the War on Terror". The organisation was formed to raise awareness of the plight of the detainees held at Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere as a result of the War on Terror and has worked closely with former detainees held by the United States and campaigns on behalf of current detainees held without trial.
Its outreach director, Moazzam Begg, is a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was released without charge in 2005. In November 2010, The Guardian reported that US embassy cables, praised Begg for his campaign for European countries to take in more Guantanamo detainees.
The organisation has been criticised as "apologists for terrorism", as a "terrorism advocacy group" and of "propagating the myth of Muslim persecution". While others deny this and claim they are doing "vital work".
CAGE is an advocacy organisation whose stated aim is "to highlight and campaign against state policies developed as part of the War on Terror", It has run campaigns in support of freeing all detainees who continue to be held without charges, and to help former detainees to re-integrate into society. Cage has also criticised the UK's anti-terrorism laws.
In October 2003, CAGE's website was launched to highlight the plight of detainees held as part of the war on terror. It published names, photos and other information about detainees which the United States had kept secret, much of which was obtained from detainees' families.
CAGE's outreach director, Moazzam Begg, is a Briton from Birmingham who was held for a total of three years by the United States in extrajudicial detention as a suspected enemy combatant in Bagram and the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba by the U.S. government. He was released without charge in 2005. He has worked to represent detainees still held at Guantanamo, as well as to help former detainees become re-integrated into society. He has also been working with governments to persuade them to accept non-national former detainees, some of whom have been refused entry by their countries of origin. In November 2010, The Guardian reported that US embassy cables in the showed then-U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg, Cynthia Stroum, praising Begg for his campaign to persuade European nations to take in Guantanamo detainees for resettlement.
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