Poets against US Detention Camps
American and European poets firmly endorsed the international condemnation of illegal detention centers the US government operates in the world, as well as Washington´s double standards regarding human rights.

Fernando Rendon, director of the Medellin International Poetry Festival, is among seven Colombian poets who petitioned to shut down Guantanamo naval base and other prisons.

The other Colombian poets are Gabriel Jaime Franco, Rafael Patiño, Ana Milena Puerta, Rafael Berrio and Lucia Estrada, and painters Rafael Quiroz and Gloria Chavatal.

Scribes from seven nations such as Nicole Cage Florentiny (Martinique); Neshe Yashin (Cyprus); Brano Mozetic (Slovenia); John Kinsella (Australia); Yvan Silen (Puerto Rico), Eduardo Llanos (Chile) and Aja (Barbados), also joined the world condemnation.

So far nearly 5,000 figures from Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia have supported the document "Cease Hypocrisy on the Issue of Human Rights," which was released by the Network in Defense of Humankind on March 14.

The document was initially signed by 400 cultural and political celebrities and social activists including nine Nobel Prize laureates in Peace, Literature and Physics.

Among the latest figures to sign are Greek filmmakers Theo Angelopoulos, Tassos Psarras and Dionisio Grigoratos, former Parliament Deputy President Panagiotis Kritikos and ex minister and Law teacher Georgios Alejandro Magkakus.

They have urged intellectuals, artists, social activists and people of good will to join in a common demand: promptly shut down detention centers run by the US and halt its human rights violations.