Last Guantanamo Briton Speaks From Cell

A British prisoner who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for 11 years without charge has spoken from his prison cell for the first time.

Shaker Aamer, who is accused of being a close associate of Osama bin Laden - a charge he denies - said he was being treated like an animal and begged to be left to die.

Earlier this year, Prime Minister David Cameron raised Aamer's case with President Barack Obama at a G8 summit and the British Government has repeatedly stated that it wants him returned to the UK.

Shouting from his cell, Aamer told CBS's 60 Minutes show: "Tell the world the truth ... Please, we are tired. Either you leave us to die in peace - or either tell the world the truth. Open up the place. Let the world come and visit. Let the world hear what's happening.

"Please colonel, act with us like a human being, not like slaves."

He added: "You cannot walk even half a metre without being chained. Is that a human being? That's the treatment of an animal...

"It is very sad what is happening in this place."

Aamer has been cleared for transfer by both the Bush and Obama administrations, according to Reprieve, the legal charity and human rights group that is representing him.

Shaker Aamer says he is being "treated like an animal"

Despite having British residency and a British wife and four children living in Battersea, south London, US authorities have repeatedly threatened to send him back to Saudi Arabia, his birthplace, against his wishes.

Clive Stafford Smith, his lawyer and Reprieve's director, said: "CBS' show gives a very rare and very shocking glimpse inside Guantanamo Bay. Everyone in the prison - the guards and the men - is suffering horribly, day after day.

"Obama must fulfil his promise to close the prison and Shaker Aamer must come home to his family in the UK, which is what David Cameron has said he wants."

According to Reprieve, Aamer was detained in Kabul in Afghanistan in 2001 after he went to the country to carry out voluntary work for an Islamic charity.

It is alleged that he was tortured at the Bagram air base while being questioned by US forces.

In February 2010 it emerged that the Metropolitan Police was investigating allegations of MI5 complicity in his torture.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "Mr Aamer's case remains a high priority for the UK Government and we continue to make clear to the US that we want him released and returned to the UK as a matter of urgency."

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