Among them, Jane Ellison, Tory MP for Battersea, wrote to President Barack Obama to urge Aamer's release.[45][73] February 2012, marking the 10th anniversary of Aamer's detention, a series of protests took place in England while detainees conducted a hunger strike in Guantanamo.[45] In December 2012, the comedian Frankie Boyle donated £50,000 to Aamer's legal fund for suits against MI6.[74] By April 2013, 117,384 British citizen or UK residents had signed an online petition e-petitions to pressure the UK Government for Aamer's release.[75] In July 2013, Clive Stafford-Smith, director of the UK branch of Reprieve; Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian; and actress Julie Christie went on a sequential hunger strike in support of Shaker Aamer and his release.[76][77] In March 2015 British lawmaker John McDonnell said, "The case of Shaker Aamer is one of the worst cases of a miscarriage of justice in the last three decades at least ...