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The United States has handed over Algeria a fifth Algerian being detained in Guantanamo Bay prison, a communiqué issued by the US Department of Defence said, Wednesday.
The same communiqué mentioned that the Algerian detainee has been extradited to Algeria together with another Sudan detainee who has been transferred to Khartoum.
However, the source has [...]
by Andy Worthington [...]
by Andy Worthington
As part of its alleged “desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary,” the Pentagon announced on Tuesday that two Guantánamo prisoners had been transferred to Algeria. This follows the repatriation of two other Algerians – Mustafa Hamlili and Abdul Raham Houari – at [...]
Ameziane, who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo since February 2002 without being charged with crimes, told his lawyer Wells Dixon that guards at the base placed a water hose between his nose and mouth and ran it for several minutes. Ameziane said they repeated the procedure several times, nearly suffocating him.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A Guantanamo detainee on Wednesday urged a human rights panel that investigates abuse cases in the Americas to review his accusations that he was tortured in the US “war on terror” prison.
Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian who has been held at the US naval base in Cuba for six years as an “enemy [...]
The Algerian originated from Bechar southern province, named Hamlili Mustapha, who was imprisoned at Guantanamo bay prison, has been received home by a great number of his acquaintances congratulating him for coming home unharmed.
In this regard, El Khabar journalist has been one of the first visitors of the released prisoner’s home; we have been received [...]
The head of the Advisory Human Rights Commission, Farouk Ksentini, has denied US allegations saying Algeria rejected repatriating its detainees in Guantanamo, while disclosing that Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already informed its US counterpart that the conditions set in exchange of extradite them are rejected.
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Will the two Algerians freed from Guantánamo be treated fairly?
by Andy Worthington
It doesn’t take much investigation to discover that Algeria has a bleak human rights record, which is one of the reasons that, until last week, when 49-year-old Mustafa Hamlili and 28-year-old Abdul Raham [...]
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
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The sun rises over the razor-wired detention compound called Camp Delta at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In a first, the Pentagon said this week it sent home two Algerians from the [...]
And speaking of desperation….
60 prisoners start a hunger strike
Algerian prisoners detained in Libya have started a hunger strike until next Thursday. Yet, a representative of prisoners said two prisoners, namely: T. Z and A. A have sewed their mouths to protest the rejection of the Libyan Justice implementing the amnesty issued by the Libyan leader [...]
Cageprisoners received a message today from Mohamed Bachir who has been released from custody:
Hello everybody. It is Bachir Mohamed here.
Thanks for all who wrote about me and helped me. I’m free now and reunited with my family in Edinburgh. I’m very happy now, and I hope this continue to free all innocent people like me [...]
Kosice/Bratislava, March 13 (TASR-SLOVAKIA) - Slovakia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday decided on the suspension of the extradition of alleged terrorist Mustafa Labsi to his homeland Algeria, Labsi’s attorney Maria Kolikova has told SLOVAKIA.
Kolikova welcomed the decision, calling it crucial for her client’s protection. “The Constitutional Court has proven to be an effective tool in the [...]
From cageprisoner.com
(media file included)
I, Hider Hanani - also known as Amar Makhlulif - was born in Algeria to a modest family in 1966. I had a simple upbringing in which my family instilled into me values of love, tolerance and patience. When war broke out in Algeria in 1991-1992, something tragic happened to our beautiful [...]
By PETE YOST WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court with a history of ruling against Guantanamo Bay detainees handed one of them a reprieve Friday in his fight against the Bush administration’s effort to return him to Algeria, where he says he probably would be tortured.
Ahmed Belbacha deserves to have his case returned [...]
Mon Mar 3, 2008 6:46am EST
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerians held at the Guantanamo Bay prison are welcome to return home but if they face local charges they will be put on trial in Algeria, Justice Minister Tayeb Belaiz said in remarks published on Monday.
Belaiz said those who came home and were not wanted by the [...]
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