July 18th 2008. Ghazni, Afghanistan . This video, obtained by Cageprisoners shows the media conference following the ‘arrest’ of a woman and a teenager identified by Afghan police as Saliha and Ali Ihsan. The US allege that this is Aafia Siddiqui and her 12 year old son, Ahmad.
Aafia Siddiqui was extradited to the US [...]
CAGEPRISONERS PRESS RELEASE
04/08/2008
Cageprisoners demand answers on Siddiqui custody
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FBI admit to detention of Aafia Siddiqui five years after disappearance
In response to the FBI admission that disappeared Aafia Siddiqui is in custody in Afghanistan, alive but injured, Asim Qureshi, Senior Researcher for Cageprisoners, issued the following statement:
“There are many questions that the FBI and the Pakistani government [...]
British journalist Yvonne Ridley says woman being held in solitary confinement for 4 years
By Muhammad Bilal
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani woman has spent the last four years, and remains to this day, in solitary confinement at the United-States run Bagram airbase detention facility in Afghanistan, British journalist and peace activist Yvonne Ridley told reporters on [...]
Sami al-Haj was reporting from Afghanistan for al-Jazeera TV when the US imprisoned him and took him to Guantánamo Bay. He was the only journalist there and this is his story.
Suddenly last Thursday, after nearly six years incarcerated without charge and more than a year after going on hunger strike, Sami al-Haj, the only journalist [...]
My name is Hussain Al-Samamra. I am a Palestinian born in Jordan on 15th August 1975. I am currently in a British prison, awaiting deportation to Jordan, because I am allegedly a “threat” to the U. K’s national security. This is my story of how I was tortured in Jordan then sought political asylum in [...]
London (PTI): A former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg has been honoured at the annual ‘Muslim Writers Awards 2008′ for his book chronicling his time in the US detention centre and his return back home to Britain.
Begg was awarded the ‘Published Writer of the Year’ award for his book, ‘Enemy Combatants: A British Muslim’s Journey [...]
Article from Cageprisoners
Detainee DD was arrested in Britain two and a half years ago. Since that time he has been detained without trial or charge, fighting deportation to Libya, where he may face the threat of further imprisonment, torture or death. Initially held in Britain’s Secret Guantanamo, HMP Long Lartin, he was later released under [...]
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