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Article

9 Sep 2005

Author:
Audrey Gillan, Guardian [UK]

UK firm picketed over Guantánamo 'torture' shackles

Yesterday, the Birmingham handcuff and baton manufacturer Hiatt & Company [Hiatts] was picketed by human rights activists wearing orange jumpsuits in protest at its continued export to the US of handcuffs and other products used to hold prisoners at Camp X-Ray on the US naval base at Guantánamo, Cuba...Yesterday, Hiatt refused to take calls from the Guardian. [also refers to Hiatt-Thompson (joint venture Thompson Corporation & Hiatts]