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 The remaining British detainee in the Guantanamo Bay prison is on a hunger strike and says he is being treated inhumanely. (PLEASE WRITE the DOJ!)
Shaker Aamer has been held at the US prison in Cuba for almost 10 years. He was cleared for release in 2007 when the Bush administration acknowledged it had no evidence against him.
The British government continues to press for his release.
Mr Aamer wants to be freed or sent for a “just and public” trial.
He was born in Saudi Arabia but has British residency, and his wife and two children live in London.
‘Years of hardship’
BBC Radio 5 live’s Victoria Derbyshire programme has obtained a letter, written and signed by eight detainees including Mr Aamer, alleging that they have been treated inhumanely during his detention. In the letter, he describes himself, and fellow detainees, as “hostages.”
He adds: “Inhumane treatment is taking place at the hospital among other areas, especially affecting the sick and those who are on (hunger) strike and our deprivation of real treatment, health, diet and appropriate clothing which are not provided to us, nor we are allowed to provide them for ourselves.”
The letter concludes: “After these years of hardship that we have spent here – we want you to consider our cases as soon as possible and give us the right to a just and a public trial or set us free without conditions.”
Responding to the letter, Col Donnie Thomas, the Joint Detention Group Commander – the senior military policeman in charge of all the camps – told the BBC: “It is totally false. I take my mission very seriously. In 19 months here, that is my mission. These detainees are treated with the highest dignity and respect and humanity.”
Mr Aamer was captured in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in December 2001. He was flown to Guantanamo in February 2002 and is one of 172 untried inmates.
by Saed Bannoura
Palestinian detainee, Adnan Khader, head of the Islamic Jihad Movement in the West Bank, declared he will be stepping-up his hunger strike that started 47 days ago, by refraining from drinking any sort of liquids.
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) reported Tuesday that the Israeli Prison Administration (IPA) informed Khader’s lawyer that he had decided to stop drinking liquids after he was prevented from meeting her.
The lawyer stated that the situation of Khader is gradually and dangerously deteriorating, and that the IPA informed her that it will be obliged to administer liquids even if he refuses.
Prison Physicians stated that, should Khader refrain from drinking any liquids, his body will likely collapse within three days, therefore, they have decided to administer liquids.
Khader, from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, started his hunger strike on December 18, one day after he was kidnapped by the army; he never faced charges, and decided to strike to protest his illegal imprisonment. After 47 days of hunger striking, he has decided to escalate his strike and refrain from drinking any liquids.
He was sent to court on Monday, and the prosecution demanded that he remains imprisoned under administrative detention, without chargers; the court decided to delay its ruling in the case until Wednesday.
Continue reading Detainee on Hunger Strike For 47 Days, To Stop Liquids
Ali Abunimah
Adnan Khader, the head of the Islamic Jihad Movement in the West Bank, talking to the media after a meeting with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Muqata in the West Bank town of Ramallah June 28, 2005.
( Mushir Abdelrahman / Maan Images)
PHR’s release (below) states that the Israeli military allowed two PHR physicians to examine Adnan, and they informed him of the predicted effects of continuing the hunger strike:
PHR-Israel appealed urgently on 29 January 2012 to allow one of their physicians to see Mr. Adnan, in keeping with guidelines drawn from the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Malta of 1991, as well as Israeli law.
A military medical officer has responded that this request was received and is in process. Adnan conditioned his referral to a hospital on being examined by PHR Israel’s physicians, when such a commitment was granted by the IPS, two of PHR-Israel’s doctors met him at the hospital, examined his condition and answered his questions regarding the current and predicted effects of his hunger strike. For now, he decided to continue his hunger strike.
Continue reading Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan at risk of imminent death after 45 days hunger strike
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We are working in Pakistan to give support to our prisoner brothers and their deserted families. They are the target of unfairness and hatred, these brothers of our Ummah are behind bars just because “They are Muslims”.
They are more beloved in the eyes of Allah no matter how much ppl on earth belittle them.
Terrorists do not walk around in turbans and long beards, but they wear suits and ties.
People who Stand Against injustice and unfair killing are called terrorists. People who purport this evil upon mankind are called heroes.
You can support such Prisoners of War on Terror.
For Single Prisoner You pay: $25 Per month (Around 2000 Pkr)
For Supporting the Widow and Children of a Prisoner Pay: $100 Per Month
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To Help Muslim Prisoners in Pakistan morally, financially, legally.
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RABI AL-AWAL 1433 A.H.
(February 2, 2012)
Assalaamu Alaikum (Greetings of Peace):
The American born citizen never met anyone from al-Qaeda.
He never spoke of doing physical harm to anyone here or abroad.
He was not the person of interest who allegedly raised the initial alarm.
He angered the presiding judge for being overzealous in his own defense!
He was nevertheless convicted of wanting to give material support to overseas “terrorists.”
And when sentenced a few days from now in Houston, Texas, Barry Bujol Jr., faces the possibility of 20 years behind bars!
I am absolutely convinced that if Barry Bujol were still a Baptist, let’s say of the evangelical stripe, and he had communicated his thoughts and feelings in the exact same way with Christian (or even Jewish) Zionists; and he had attempted to sneak aboard a ship to travel, let’s say, to Israel with the same intent…things would be different.
Continue reading Former Prairie View Muslim Student, scheduled to be sentenced
 Tejinder Singh – AHN News Correspondent
Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Top U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday called for detention or heavy surveillance of Taliban detainees under consideration for release from Guantanamo Bay as a “confidence building” measure, while the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence called for an open debate about the decision.
Appearing at a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, CIA Director David Petraeus cited analysis from his agency that five detainees, if transferred, would still be subjected to detention or at least heavy surveillance.
“In fact, our analysts did provide assessments of the five and the risks presented by various scenarios by which they could be sent somewhere — not back to Afghanistan or Pakistan — and then based on the various mitigating measures that could be implemented to ensure that they cannot return to militant activity,” the intelligence chief said.
No additional details were provided by the officials about the procedures for surveillance measures or which third country would be willing to accept transferred detainees.
Mincing no words, committee vice chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) called for declassification of the intelligence reports and stopping transfer of the detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Continue reading Senator opposes release of Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay
A hearing is under way in New York to sentence the father of a convicted terrorist with ties to Colorado.
A federal jury convicted Mohammed Wali Zazi of obstructing the investigation into his son, Najibullah Zazi.
The elder Zazi faces 40 years for deliberately misleading investigators about his son’s plot to bomb New York City subways.
The younger Zazi previously lived in Aurora.
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By Graeme Green
As the Guantanamo Bay detention centre passes its tenth anniversary, Metro investigates what the future holds for the controversial facility, which continues to hold one Briton and was set up in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks…
I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo and I will follow through on that,’ said Barack Obama before coming to power.
It seemed the US president would take a break from the policies of the previous Bush administration. But the recent passing of the centre’s ten-year anniversary was marked with protests by human rights activists, angry that Mr Obama’s promise has failed to materialise.
Guantanamo Bay detention centre is at a US naval base in Cuba and received its first inmates in January 2002.
It was established after the September 11 attacks to deal with prisoners from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the so-called ‘war on terror’.
Over the next ten years, reports of illegal detention without trial or due process and prisoners being subjected to abuse, sleep deprivation, long periods of solitary confinement and waterboarding made Guantanamo synonymous with the same kinds of human rights abuses America was claiming to fight against.
Mr Obama recognised this, promising to close the detention centre within his first year in office as ‘part and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in the world’. But, as we all know, that never happened.
Continue reading After ten years of terror, what does the future hold for Guantanamo Bay?
DR Fouzia Siddiqui, sister of Dr Aafia who is a Pakistani citizen and imprisoned in the US, has called for the setting up of an independent impartial medical board in the light of the memo received by Pakistani embassy regarding the ailment of Aafia.
She also demanded suo motu by the Supreme Court over the setting up of an independent medial board for Aafia’s proper examination
Talking to the media and addressing different demonstrations on Sunday, Dr Fouzia Siddiqui disclosed that the embassy of Pakistan had received a memo from Carswell Prison, US, raising concerns over Aafia’s health and confinement issues besides mentioning the disease of cancer in her.
Dr Fouzia stated that Aafia was suffering from a life threatening cancer and had only six months to live further but despite this critical situation, she was not allowed contact with family and friends in solitary confinement.
Continue reading Medical board for Aafia demanded
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