[Your address]

[Date]

American Embassy
[Name and address of the Ambassador
of the chosen country]

Objet : Guantanamo detainees in hunger strike.

Dear Mr [or Mrs] [Name of the Ambassador],

I write regarding the continued indefinite detention and imprisonment without charge of all prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. It has been over three years since these men were initially detained.

All detainees without exception who have been released from Guantanamo have complained of enduring beatings, sleep deprivation, prolonged constraint in uncomfortable positions, prolonged hooding, sexual and cultural humiliation, forced injections, and other physical and psychological mistreatment.

Amnesty International recently described the detention facility as the "gulag of our times".

Lawyers for the detainees have reported that the men's mental health is rapidly deteriorating. Two hundred of the detainees at least are currently in their sixth week of hunger strike in protest at their mistreatment.

It is shocking and inadmissible that men are held under such inhuman conditions, without formal committal for trial by a State which says it is the champion of Freedom and Democracy in the World.

I thus urge you to contact the authorities of the country which you represent in order to inform them of our protests and concerns.

I also urge you to acknowledge receipt of this mail so that no one cannot manage to affirm that the representatives of the USA abroad are not interested in desiderata of the citizens of the States which welcome them.

Thanking you in advance for your help,

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