Former Guantanamo prisoner and family of current prisoners:

Asif Iqbal is a 25-year-old British citizen who was held, in extrajudicial detention, as a terror suspect in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps. Iqbal and his friends Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul were captured in November 2001 in Afghanistan and then taken to Guantanamo. Known as "The Tipton 3" because the three young men are from Tipton, England, they were all released on March 9, 2004 with no charges. They reported that during their detention they were repeatedly punched, kicked, slapped, forcibly injected with drugs, deprived of sleep, hooded, photographed naked and subjected to body cavity searches and sexual and religious humiliations. The 2006 film The Road to Guantánamo is a docu-drama depicting the harrowing story of their detention.

Taher Deghayes is the brother of current Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes. Taher and his mother are coming all the way from Dubai to raise awareness about Omar's case, and to call for his release. Omar is a British resident, law school student, husband and father who was arrested in Pakistan, taken to the Bagram airbase prison in Afghanistan, and then brought to Guantanamo in September 2002. He alleges that he was abused and tortured, including blinded by pepper spray. For more information on Omar, see http://news.amnesty.org/pages/torture-case4-eng

Zohra Shaban Zewawi is the mother of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes. She is traveling from Dubai to Cuba because her "heart is ruptured with sadness" over the indefinite detention of her son as an "enemy combatant." Zohra insists that her son, who has never been charged or tried, is innocent and should be freed. For a family photo and letter from Zohra, see http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=1329.

Other delegates:

Medea Benjamin is Cofounder of the human rights group Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. She traveled to Afghanistan to document civilian casualties, set up an Occupation Watch Center in Baghdad to investigate abuses by the occupying forces, and lobbies Congress to end the war and respect human rights.

Tiffany Burns is an organizer with Gold Star Families for Peace, a group of relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq who are trying to bring the troops home. She is part of a campaign to get the US Congress to stop funding the war in Iraq.

Jodie Evans is Cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace and co-author of the book Stop the Next War Now. She is a member of the Women's Committee of Human Rights Watch. We organizes US women to protest the war in Iraq.

Bill Goodman is an attorney and legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights. Goodman's landmark cases include Rasul v. Bush, representing the Guantánamo detainees before the Supreme Court, and Arar v. Ashcroft, the first case to challenge extraordinary rendition or outsourcing torture.

Catherine Murphy is a sociologist and documentary filmmaker. She has produced several social-issue documentaries. She is also a subtitle editor and cameraperson. She will be documenting the trip.

Cindy Sheehan, "peace mom" whose son Casey was killed in Iraq, is head of Gold Star Families for Peace. She became famous worldwide when she camped outside of George Bush' Texas ranch in Crawford in June 2005 Texas to demand why our troops have been sent to Iraq. She is author of Dear President Bush and Not One More Mother's Child.

Adele Welty, the mother of firefighter Timothy Welty who perished at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, is a member of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. She protests the war in Iraq to prevent Timmy's legacy from being used to justify the killing of innocent civilians. Adele has traveled to Afghanistan and Iraq to meet with families of civilian casualties.

Colonel Ann Wright served 29 years in the military and 16 years in the diplomatic corps, including as Deputy Ambassador at four missions. Among her many posts, Ms. Wright re-opened the US Embassy in Kabul in December 2001. She resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war and now works full-time as an advocate for peace and human rights, crisscrossing the country speaking and lending support to soldiers who refuse to fight in Iraq.

Mat Whitecross is a film editor and director of the docu-drama The Road to Guantaanamo, the story of three young men, Ruhel Ahmed, Shafiq Rasul and Monir Ali, Muslim British nationals who grew up near Birmingham, England, who were held for more than two years under the custody of Afghani and American forces. The movie received the Silver Bear award for direction at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival.