Campaigners for Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes have stepped up their plans to present his case in Europe.

Activists lobbying for justice for the 36-year-old law graduate from Saltdean, who has been imprisoned in the US military jail for three years without charge, plan to send a delegation to Brussels in ten days' time.

Previously, the plan had been just to send leading campaigner Jackie Chase to address an international human rights conference, lobby MEPs and speak to the American ambassador in Brussels.

The Save Omar group has now decided that four people will be able to canvas MEPs much more effectively during the two days of the conference.

It is also appealing for a French speaker to assist them.

The campaigners hope to persuade hundreds of the European politicians to put pressure on the UK to abide by the UN Convention on Refugees, according to which member states must look after refugees as if they were one of their own citizens.

Mr Deghayes was granted refugee status in the UK after fleeing Libya with his family in the Eighties when his father was assassinated.

Although he is a British resident, he did not get a British passport when his mother, brothers and sister applied for theirs.

The group will visit the American ambassador to ask that immediate visitation rights be granted to a doctor and one of Mr Deghayes' family members, to ascertain the prisoner's physical condition as he is currently in his eighth week of a hunger strike.

The Save Omar group also needs volunteers locally to help gather signatures on their petition from audiences leaving Paramount Comedy Festival shows in Brighton.

Anybody that can help with delegation expenses, would like to volunteer as a French speaker or can help collect signatures in Brighton should call 01273 735046 or email jal26@sussex.ac.uk