Post by Cageprisoners on Oct 8, 2005 1:44:03 GMT -5
"What's the worst that could happen? That I could be killed? I am being killed now only they are doing it very slowly. It couldn't be worse than this psychological torture. In Algeria, it would be physical but I would die quickly."
(Detainee H, former control order detainee, re-arrested in the August 11th deportation raids)
Cageprisoners' Ramadhan 2005 Campaign
As Ramadhan approaches, Cageprisoners requests everyone to remember the detainees and their families.
This is the fifth Ramadhan many of the detainees will spend behind bars, subject to abuse, not knowing the charges or evidence against them, often having neither access to a lawyer nor their families.
Some will be fasting despite having been on hunger strike for the past two months. Others while facing the threat of deportation and torture.
It will be the fifth Ramadhan that the families will spend isolated from their husband, father or son, being felt acutely now. Having lost their main breadwinner, and shunned by their communities, many are struggling to cope, sometimes with up to five children, alone, left abandoned without any support.
Do not forget the former detainees. This Ramadhan for many will be their first in five years in which they will spend as free men. Many are struggling to adjust to life on the outside, dealing with the scars of their detention and unable to secure even housing or the benefits to which they are entitled.
Click here for more information on how you can support the prisoners and their families
Ramadhan Special: New Flash Animation at Cageprisoners.com[/color]
HHUGS (Helping Households Under Great Stress)
Flash presentation about the plight of the prisoners' families. Highlights the work of HHugs, the support group and charity assisting the detainees, former prisoners and their families.
Cageprisoners: The Desecration of the Quran in Guantanamo (Long version)
Cageprisoners: The Desecration of the Quran in Guantanamo (Short version)
Islamic Focus: None of You Truly Believes
by Asim Qureshi
How far have we fallen to neglect the innocents who rely upon us to fulfil our obligations towards them? How far have fallen to know that our brothers are locked away without any contact with the ones they love, and yet we still do not step up and say that yes we will protect where they cannot? How far have we fallen, that we consider the children to be guilty, simply because the government has incarcerated their father?...
How can we expect those children to grow up innocent of the evil of this world, when, like the son of Monear Eldrissy, amongst the first words that they learn is, "Baba in prison"?...
If you were in prison, knowing that you were in there for a crime that you had never committed, what would you want the Muslim community to do? Would you say to us that leave my family be, they can take care of themselves? Of course not, you would ask one thing, where are my people?
None of us truly believe in Allah until we love for our Muslim community, for our brothers and sisters in Islam, for our children in Islam, what we love for ourselves. This Ramadhan, the families of the detainees will need more than ever to know that we are there to support them.
Click here to read the article in full
Jamil El Banna's Children Send Ramadhan Greetings
Jamil El Banna has been in US custody for the past 3 years. The Jordanian national who lived in Britain was kidnapped along with friend Bisher al Rawi, on the 8th November in Gambia, before being transported to Bagram and eventually held in Guantanamo. He has five children, the youngest of whom he has never seen, who feel his absence acutely. View their Ramadhan greeting message to their father in Cuba.
Interviews
Tom Wilner
Interview with Tom Wilner: Hunger Strike by Gitmo Detainees Enters 2nd Month
Tom Wilner is an attorney representing 11 Kuwaitis held in detention at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In protest of their indefinite imprisonment without charge or the prospect of a trial, at least 128, or nearly one-quarter of all detainees at Guantanamo have undertaken a hunger strike. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Wilner about the legal odyssey of his clients, and the significance of the hunger strike.
Campaigns
Canada Defies United Nations and Paves the Way to Deport Secret Trial
Four months after the United Nations called on Canada to respect the absolute prohibition on deportation to torture, the Governmment of Canada has for a second time denied protection to secret trial detainee Mahmoud Jaballah, paving the way to deportation to that exact fate in Egypt.
Campaign Update: Nadir Remli Released
IHRC has great pleasure in informing campaigners that Nadir Remli has been released from detention in Italy.
Legal Issues
Scholar Says Bush Has Used Obscure Doctrine To Extend Power 95 Times
by Jennifer Van Bergen
The Bush administration has been using an extreme version of an obscure doctrine called the Unitary Executive Theory to justify executive actions that far exceed past presidents' power.
Downloads
Q&A on Petitions and Hunger Strikes
by Dr. Muhammad Al Tarhuni
Arabic audio with English translation of a Q & A session regarding prisoner hunger strikes and the permissibility of petitioning governments for our rights. Translated by Sh Muhammad Syed Al Adly
Articles
Gitmo's Hunger Strikers
by Clive Stafford Smith
"I am slowly dying in this solitary prison cell," says Omar Deghayes, a British refugee and Guantánamo Bay prisoner. "I have no rights, no hope. So why not take my destiny into my own hands, and die for a principle?"
Descent of Dissent
by Asim Qureshi
Political dissent is descending into a position where any word that goes against the government can be seen as something that contravenes the anti-terrorism laws. No one is safe from the repercussions of their utterances in the name of justice.
Protest is Criminalised and the Huffers and Puffers Say Nothing
by George Monbiot
The police abuse terror and harassment laws to penalise dissent while we insist civil liberties are our gift to the world
Behind Barbed Wire in Guantanamo
by Letta Taylor
Inmate's writings raise questions of identification, treatment at detention camp
Starved for Simple Humanity
by John Sewell
He didn't starve to death in jail. We should be happy about that, and relieved the city's reputation hasn't been dragged through the mud again.
Who is Ali Asad Chandia?
by the Muslim Link
The government flatly calls Brother Ali Asad Chandia a supporter of terrorism.
Press Release: 'Ian Blair Has Jumped The Barrier of the Law”
by De Menezes Family
We have been shown the letter sent by Sir Ian Blair to the Home Office within hours of the shooting of Jean Charles. We see he gave instructions that the IPCC should not be involved and would not be allowed into Stockwell station.
'We Have Been Lied To About The War. I Dared To Speak The Truth'
by Walter Wolfgang
My case is not important. But what happened to me when I was ejected from the Labour conference - simply for a one-word protest during Jack Straw's speech this week - tells us there is something deeply wrong with the culture of our Government under Tony Blair.
An 84-year-old Japanese-American Contributes To The Fight Against Internment at Guantanamo
by Amina Shaikh
At first glance it would be a strange thing to find a link between a Japanese American and Guantanamo Bay detainees; where are the commonalities?
A Matter of Honor
by Captain Ian Fishback
I am a graduate of West Point currently serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Infantry. I have served two combat tours with the 82nd Airborne Division, one each in Afghanistan and Iraq. While I served in the Global War on Terror, the actions and statements of my leadership led me to believe that United States policy did not require application of the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan or Iraq. On 7 May 2004, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's testimony that the United States followed the Geneva Conventions in Iraq and the "spirit" of the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan prompted me to begin an approach for clarification.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Spain Jails Ex-Guantanamo Inmate
Senate Debates Treatment for Detainees
Muslim Chaplain Recalls Guantanamo Deal
Egyptian Returnee 'Faces Torture'
US Says Egypt Vows To Treat Guantanamo Inmate Well
UK Urged To Speed Up Hicks Citizenship Bid
UK
Terror Case 'Does Not Stand Up'
UK and Russia in Terrorism Talks
UK in Deportation Talks With Libya After Arrests
Five Face Deportation After Raids
Ministers Seek To Overturn Torture Rule in Deportations
Met Chief Tried To Block Shooting Inquiry
Algerians Held Without Trial in Despair, Says Lawyer
Blair Leads Party Apologies To Activist
IRAQ
Soldier Reports More Abuses to Senator
US Judge Orders Release of Iraq Abuse Pictures
US Troops Upload Photos of Dead Iraqis For Porn
MISCELLANEOUS
Italy Seeks Former U.S. Diplomat in Kidnapping
Pakistan 'Nets Taleban Spokesman'
Thomas' Lawyers Agree To Pre-Trial Secrecy Deal
College Park Man Pleads Not Guilty To Terrorism Charges
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]
(Detainee H, former control order detainee, re-arrested in the August 11th deportation raids)
Cageprisoners' Ramadhan 2005 Campaign
As Ramadhan approaches, Cageprisoners requests everyone to remember the detainees and their families.
This is the fifth Ramadhan many of the detainees will spend behind bars, subject to abuse, not knowing the charges or evidence against them, often having neither access to a lawyer nor their families.
Some will be fasting despite having been on hunger strike for the past two months. Others while facing the threat of deportation and torture.
It will be the fifth Ramadhan that the families will spend isolated from their husband, father or son, being felt acutely now. Having lost their main breadwinner, and shunned by their communities, many are struggling to cope, sometimes with up to five children, alone, left abandoned without any support.
Do not forget the former detainees. This Ramadhan for many will be their first in five years in which they will spend as free men. Many are struggling to adjust to life on the outside, dealing with the scars of their detention and unable to secure even housing or the benefits to which they are entitled.
Click here for more information on how you can support the prisoners and their families
Ramadhan Special: New Flash Animation at Cageprisoners.com[/color]
HHUGS (Helping Households Under Great Stress)
Flash presentation about the plight of the prisoners' families. Highlights the work of HHugs, the support group and charity assisting the detainees, former prisoners and their families.
Cageprisoners: The Desecration of the Quran in Guantanamo (Long version)
Cageprisoners: The Desecration of the Quran in Guantanamo (Short version)
Islamic Focus: None of You Truly Believes
by Asim Qureshi
How far have we fallen to neglect the innocents who rely upon us to fulfil our obligations towards them? How far have fallen to know that our brothers are locked away without any contact with the ones they love, and yet we still do not step up and say that yes we will protect where they cannot? How far have we fallen, that we consider the children to be guilty, simply because the government has incarcerated their father?...
How can we expect those children to grow up innocent of the evil of this world, when, like the son of Monear Eldrissy, amongst the first words that they learn is, "Baba in prison"?...
If you were in prison, knowing that you were in there for a crime that you had never committed, what would you want the Muslim community to do? Would you say to us that leave my family be, they can take care of themselves? Of course not, you would ask one thing, where are my people?
None of us truly believe in Allah until we love for our Muslim community, for our brothers and sisters in Islam, for our children in Islam, what we love for ourselves. This Ramadhan, the families of the detainees will need more than ever to know that we are there to support them.
Click here to read the article in full
Jamil El Banna's Children Send Ramadhan Greetings
Jamil El Banna has been in US custody for the past 3 years. The Jordanian national who lived in Britain was kidnapped along with friend Bisher al Rawi, on the 8th November in Gambia, before being transported to Bagram and eventually held in Guantanamo. He has five children, the youngest of whom he has never seen, who feel his absence acutely. View their Ramadhan greeting message to their father in Cuba.
Interviews
Tom Wilner
Interview with Tom Wilner: Hunger Strike by Gitmo Detainees Enters 2nd Month
Tom Wilner is an attorney representing 11 Kuwaitis held in detention at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In protest of their indefinite imprisonment without charge or the prospect of a trial, at least 128, or nearly one-quarter of all detainees at Guantanamo have undertaken a hunger strike. Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Wilner about the legal odyssey of his clients, and the significance of the hunger strike.
Campaigns
Canada Defies United Nations and Paves the Way to Deport Secret Trial
Four months after the United Nations called on Canada to respect the absolute prohibition on deportation to torture, the Governmment of Canada has for a second time denied protection to secret trial detainee Mahmoud Jaballah, paving the way to deportation to that exact fate in Egypt.
Campaign Update: Nadir Remli Released
IHRC has great pleasure in informing campaigners that Nadir Remli has been released from detention in Italy.
Legal Issues
Scholar Says Bush Has Used Obscure Doctrine To Extend Power 95 Times
by Jennifer Van Bergen
The Bush administration has been using an extreme version of an obscure doctrine called the Unitary Executive Theory to justify executive actions that far exceed past presidents' power.
Downloads
Q&A on Petitions and Hunger Strikes
by Dr. Muhammad Al Tarhuni
Arabic audio with English translation of a Q & A session regarding prisoner hunger strikes and the permissibility of petitioning governments for our rights. Translated by Sh Muhammad Syed Al Adly
Articles
Gitmo's Hunger Strikers
by Clive Stafford Smith
"I am slowly dying in this solitary prison cell," says Omar Deghayes, a British refugee and Guantánamo Bay prisoner. "I have no rights, no hope. So why not take my destiny into my own hands, and die for a principle?"
Descent of Dissent
by Asim Qureshi
Political dissent is descending into a position where any word that goes against the government can be seen as something that contravenes the anti-terrorism laws. No one is safe from the repercussions of their utterances in the name of justice.
Protest is Criminalised and the Huffers and Puffers Say Nothing
by George Monbiot
The police abuse terror and harassment laws to penalise dissent while we insist civil liberties are our gift to the world
Behind Barbed Wire in Guantanamo
by Letta Taylor
Inmate's writings raise questions of identification, treatment at detention camp
Starved for Simple Humanity
by John Sewell
He didn't starve to death in jail. We should be happy about that, and relieved the city's reputation hasn't been dragged through the mud again.
Who is Ali Asad Chandia?
by the Muslim Link
The government flatly calls Brother Ali Asad Chandia a supporter of terrorism.
Press Release: 'Ian Blair Has Jumped The Barrier of the Law”
by De Menezes Family
We have been shown the letter sent by Sir Ian Blair to the Home Office within hours of the shooting of Jean Charles. We see he gave instructions that the IPCC should not be involved and would not be allowed into Stockwell station.
'We Have Been Lied To About The War. I Dared To Speak The Truth'
by Walter Wolfgang
My case is not important. But what happened to me when I was ejected from the Labour conference - simply for a one-word protest during Jack Straw's speech this week - tells us there is something deeply wrong with the culture of our Government under Tony Blair.
An 84-year-old Japanese-American Contributes To The Fight Against Internment at Guantanamo
by Amina Shaikh
At first glance it would be a strange thing to find a link between a Japanese American and Guantanamo Bay detainees; where are the commonalities?
A Matter of Honor
by Captain Ian Fishback
I am a graduate of West Point currently serving as a Captain in the U.S. Army Infantry. I have served two combat tours with the 82nd Airborne Division, one each in Afghanistan and Iraq. While I served in the Global War on Terror, the actions and statements of my leadership led me to believe that United States policy did not require application of the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan or Iraq. On 7 May 2004, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's testimony that the United States followed the Geneva Conventions in Iraq and the "spirit" of the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan prompted me to begin an approach for clarification.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Spain Jails Ex-Guantanamo Inmate
Senate Debates Treatment for Detainees
Muslim Chaplain Recalls Guantanamo Deal
Egyptian Returnee 'Faces Torture'
US Says Egypt Vows To Treat Guantanamo Inmate Well
UK Urged To Speed Up Hicks Citizenship Bid
UK
Terror Case 'Does Not Stand Up'
UK and Russia in Terrorism Talks
UK in Deportation Talks With Libya After Arrests
Five Face Deportation After Raids
Ministers Seek To Overturn Torture Rule in Deportations
Met Chief Tried To Block Shooting Inquiry
Algerians Held Without Trial in Despair, Says Lawyer
Blair Leads Party Apologies To Activist
IRAQ
Soldier Reports More Abuses to Senator
US Judge Orders Release of Iraq Abuse Pictures
US Troops Upload Photos of Dead Iraqis For Porn
MISCELLANEOUS
Italy Seeks Former U.S. Diplomat in Kidnapping
Pakistan 'Nets Taleban Spokesman'
Thomas' Lawyers Agree To Pre-Trial Secrecy Deal
College Park Man Pleads Not Guilty To Terrorism Charges
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]