KARACHI: Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of the imprisoned Dr Aafia Siddiqui, has alleged that despite court orders being issued, the United States government has not made arrangements for Dr Aafia’s treatment and Dr Fauzia expressed grave concern over her sister’s deteriorating health.
Dr Fauzia was addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club on [...]
ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Islamabad High Court here Tuesday directed Ministry of Interior to depute a responsible person to apprise the court on Wednesday over the issue of Dr Aafia’s extradition to US. The single bench of Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam in his short order said that despite court’s directions on August 12, the concerned [...]
By Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Another debate has erupted after Barrister Iqbal Jafferi’s petition in the Islamabad High Court in which he has submitted that a huge amount of bounty money was received for handing over Dr Aafia Siddiqui to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Barrister Jafferi, in his petition filed on August 8, has accused [...]
Binyam Mohamed came to the UK as an asylum seeker in 1994
A British resident facing trial for terror offences at Guantanamo Bay has written to Prime Minister Gordon Brown to plead for help in freeing him.
Binyam Mohamed says he is considering suicide, the Independent reports.
He denies involvement with terrorism and writes that [...]
Sahr MuhammedAlly [senior associate, Law and Security program, Human Rights First]: “While pre-trial motions continue at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at other end of the globe in Afghanistan more than 60 former Guantánamo and Bagram detainees have been convicted based on little more than mere allegations by the United States. After years of detention in U.S. [...]
By Tom Eley
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In a chilling example of the expanding prosecution of individuals on trumped-up charges of “terrorism,” Syed Hashmi, a 27-year-old US citizen and former student at Brooklyn College in New York City and at London Metropolitan University, is being held in solitary confinement in a federal prison on trumped-up charges of providing [...]
Posted by Amad
This case is one of the most severe cases of injustice that Muslims have faced in recent history. Unfortunately, some of our brothers (like this) have fallen to the right-wing Islamophobic propaganda against our brother.
As Imam Mahdi notes, “As a community we must continue to insist that the government end its manipulation of [...]
OTTAWA - The federal government is trying to derail hearings by the Military Police Complaints Commission into the transfer of detainees by members of the Canadian Forces to Afghan authorities, where they could be tortured.
In an application filed Friday to the Federal Court, the attorney general argues that under the National Defence Act, the complaints [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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