Russia activists protest infamous US-run Gitmo prison

A group of Russian activists dressed in Guantanamo Bay-style orange jumpsuits have held a demonstration to express their outrage at the notorious US-run detention facility.

The protesters lay on the ground with black hoods over their heads, their feet shackled and hands behind their backs outside the US embassy in Moscow on Thursday.

However, the demonstrators were taken away by Russian police officers.

The Guantanamo Bay prison was set up after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World TRADE CENTER complex in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C.

Washington claims the prisoners are terror suspects, but it has not pressed charges against most of them in any court.

The US military has been criticized for force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners who have been engaged in hunger strikes for years to protest their confinement.

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