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Photos from March 8, 2004, on Due Process for Guantanamo Detainees
All Photos by Rick Reinhard, Washington, D.C.

See NCC News Story:  Respect for God-Given Human Dignity Undergirds Faith Community's Call For Due Process for Guantanamo Detainees, National Council of Churches Says

 

NCC General Secretary Robert W. Edgar (top) and former Anglican Church envoy and Beirut hostage Terry Waite (right) address March 8 news conference in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, calling for due process rights for Guantanamo detainees.

 

 

 

Left: Terry Waite and Bob Edgar with Rabiye Kurnaz, mother of German detainee Murat Kurnaz.
Above: Corin and Vanessa Redgrave; Azmat Begg, father of British detainee Moazzam Begg, and Terry Waite walk to Lafayette Park, across from the White House.

 

Peter Yarrow (above left) and Eugene McCarthy (above right) at the March 8 Guantanamo/Due Process interfaith service of prayer and reflection.

 

Above: Muslim call to prayer at March 8 Guantanamo/Due Process interfaith service of prayer and reflection.

 

Above left and right: Congregants at the March 8 service.

 

 

InKlein Quartet at the March 8 service.

 

Azmat Begg, father of Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, and Colleen Kelly of 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, who lost her brother on 9/11/2001 at the World Trade Center, join in lighting a candle.


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