More than 100 doctors have signed a petition to protest against the continued detention of an orthopaedic surgeon at Guantanamo Bay.

Ayman Saeed Batarfi, a 37 year old from Yemen, has been held for six years at the US prison base. His only crime, say the protestors, “was to treat civilian casualties in a war zone.”

The petition states that after his postgraduate studies in Pakistan and inspired by the Afghan trauma patients he had helped Dr Batarfi decided to work for a non-governmental organisation to renovate a hospital in Kabul in spring 2001.

“With the chaos …