The Argus is calling on every MP in the country to get behind our campaign for justice for Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes.

We have written to members asking them to attend a parliamentary meeting organised by supporters of Mr Deghayes.

The meeting will update MPs on the situation of the nine remaining British inmates at Guantanamo Bay and discuss the British Government's responsibility towards them.

Mr Deghayes, a 36-year old law graduate from Saltdean, is a Libyan refugee who lived in Brighton for almost 20 years before his capture and detention. The Government has so far said it is unable to help him as he was a British resident not a British citizen.

He is on hunger strike and is believed by concerned family members to be close to death. Campaigners are hoping to set up a parliamentary delegation to visit the military camp where Mr Deghayes has been held without charge for three years and check on the inmates' welfare.

Speakers expected at the meeting include Clive Stafford-Smith, lawyer for more than 40 Guantanamo inmates, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, former Guantanamo inmate Moazamm Begg and an Amnesty International representative.

Leading campaigner Jackie Chase, 48, of Grantham Road, Brighton, said: "Given the gravity of the situation - Omar is now in his 16th week of a hunger strike - and the suffering Omar must be going through, we urge the MPs to intervene, on humanitarian grounds if nothing else."

The Argus emailed all MPs, saying: "You recently voted against proposed legislation to detain terror suspects for 90 days without charge. At Guantanamo Bay hundreds of men have been held under no charge, in conditions which breach British, US and international law, for more than three years."

Members of the public are also invited to attend the meeting in Committee Room 16 at the House of Commons on November 23, from 4.30pm to 6pm.