American anti-war activists march in Cuba

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Wednesday, December 7, 2005 · Last updated 8:54 p.m. PT

American anti-war activists march in Cuba

By ANITA SNOW
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

HAVANA -- American anti-war activists marched Wednesday from the eastern Cuban city of Santiago
toward the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay to protest treatment of terror suspects there.

The 25 members of the Witness Against Torture group had hoped to begin their daylong march a day
earlier, but spent Tuesday negotiating with Cuban communist officials about how close they could
get to the American military installation, the protesters said by telephone.

Cuba and the United States have had no diplomatic relations for more than four decades, and the
American base is surrounded by a miles-wide Cuban military zone peppered with mines.

It seemed unlikely that the marchers would be allowed to cross the military zone to reach the U.S.
base's gate and demand that American sentries let them visit the prisoners, as they initially had
planned.

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