RSS

Category Archives: Videos

Campaign and News Videos

Voyage du Retour

Il commence sans freins,
Se termine par une capture sans fins,
ce voyage.

Allongé dans ma cellule les yeux ouverts,
avec une joie et des sourires feints,
Je vois ma liberté consumée, mon heure venue -
Les larmes font déborder le vase de ma peine;
Ma maison est une cage aux barreaux d’acier
où le faux devient vrai, où les rêves sont brisés,
les espoirs tabassés,
où d’un nouveau statut on se voit gratifié!

L’ironie de tout ça – la détention et le reste:
Etre si petit et se tenir si haut.
Des années de larmes, des journées de labeur,
il ne reste que la peur, au bon plaisir des tyrans.
Une ordination qui expirera sûrement
sans tarder.
Mais en attendant, cette farce on doit l’endurer
seul.

Maintenant que l’on a bien appris sa leçon:
Que “la patience est une vertu”
Et que la vertu est forgée de fer,
Alors la poésie est mise en mouvement
(peut-être même sera-t-elle appréciée).

Encore et encore sur le papier j’écris,
Sachant quoi mais jamais quand -
là où les rêves commencent et les cauchemars
s’achèvent -
Je rentrerai chez moi auprès de ceux que j’aime.

-Moazzam Begg, Former Guantanamo Detainee

Read this poem in English

 
 

Tags: , , , ,

Homeward Bound

Begins this journey without reins,
Ends in capture without aims;
Now lying in the cell awake,
with merriment and smiles all fake:

Freedom is spent, time is up
Tears have rent my sorrow’s cup;
Home is a cage, and cage is steel,
Thus manifest reality’s unreal.

Dreams are shattered, hopes are battered,
Yet with new status one is flattered!
The irony of it – detention and all;
Be so small, stand so tall.

Years of tears and days of toil
Are now but fears and tyrant’s spoil;
Ordainment has surely come to pass,
But endure alone one must this farce.

Now ‘patience is virtue’ taught,
And virtue is of iron wrought;
So poetry is in motion set
(perhaps, with appreciation met)

Still the papers do I pen,
Knowing what, but never when
As dreams begin, and nightmares end
I’m homeward bound to beloved tend.

-Moazzam Begg, Former Guantanamo Detainee

Lisez ce poème en français

 
 

Tags: , , , ,

Murder By Neglect? ‘Palestinians suffer in Israeli jails from medical apathy’

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on April 5, 2013 in Videos

 

Tags: ,

US Supreme Court Dismisses Muslim Charity Case

The case against the Holy Land Foundation charity and five of its members has been effectively sealed. Defense attorneys attempted to overturn the prison sentences for the charity workers by taking the case to the highest court in the U.S., but the appeal was declined late last month without explanation.

Please write to the five brave brothers of the Holy Land Five to encourage them in their pursuit for justice and to keep their spirits high:

Abdulrahman Odeh #26548-050
FCI Victorville Medium II
Federal Correctional Institution
PO Box 5300
Adelanto, CA 92301
USA
Ghassan Elashi #29687-177
USP Marion
U.S. Penitentiary
PO Box 1000
Marion, IL 62959
USA
Mufid Abdulqader #32590-177
FCI Terre Haute
Federal Correctional Institution
PO Box 33
Terre Haute, IN 47808
USA
Mohammad Ahmad El-Mezain #92412-198
FCI Terre Haute
Federal Correctional Institution
PO Box 33
Terre Haute, IN 47808
USA
Shukri Abu-Baker #32589-177
USP Terre Haute
U.S. Penitentiary
PO Box 33
Terre Haute, IN 47808
USA
 
1 Comment

Posted by on November 9, 2012 in Campaigns, News Items, Videos

 

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Umm Taubah’s Appeal: “There I was, having a seizure out of fear…”

Umm Taubah, wife of Abu Taubah, recounts the harrowing morning of her husband’s arrest and the devastating effect it has had on the family.

Abu Taubah’s twelve children are still suffering, and his family is in dire need of duaa, financial and logistical support.

If you live in the Orlando area and can offer assistance to the family with respect to child care, hot meals, clothing, or medical care, please contact admin@myfiks.org. If you have any legal expertise or would like to refer a legal representative appropriate to Abu Taubah’s case (see here, here, here, and here), please also email the above email address.

Please continue to contribute to the Abu Taubah Family Support and Legal Fund online (enter any amount for Khutbah price):

or by sending checks/money orders payable to:

Makeen Abdus-Salaam
8583 Lake Winddham Ave
Orlando, FL 32829USA 

Or electronic bank transfers to:

Bank: Wells Fargo Bank NA
420 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
Account Name: The FIKS
SWIFT : 
WFBIUS6S
ABA121000248
ACCT: 2120911090

Send letters or cards of support to assure Abu Taubah that he and his family are not forgotten in your duas:

Marcus Robertson #201100011051
John Polk Correctional Facility
Seminole County
211 Bush Blvd
Sanford, FL 32773
USA
 
6 Comments

Posted by on November 5, 2012 in Campaigns, Collateral Damage, Videos

 

Tags: , , ,

Khaled Ben Mustafa: A Day in Guantanamo

Khaled Ben Mustafah (born in 1972) was one of five French citizens arrested in Afghanistan in 2001. He was detained at Guantanamo for three years before being sent back to France for trial in 2004.

Although originally convicted in France in 2007, his trial was overturned on appeal and he was released in February 2009. On February 17, 2010, the Court of Cassation, a higher court, ordered a re-trial of Khaled Ben Mustafa and four other men. Lawyers for ex-inmates of the Guantanamo prison camp used documents released by WikiLeaks to argue for their acquittal in a French terrorism trial on January 20, 2011.

In this testimony for witnesstoguantanamo, he describes a typical day in Guantanamo circa 2004 in the lower security camps (eg Camp 4).

 

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on October 23, 2012 in Videos

 

Tags: , , , , , ,

Amir Junaid Muhadith (aka Loon): One of the Many Reasons Why Muslims Should Unite and Support

A close friend and dear brother of Amir, Mutah Beale (aka Napoleon) reminds us of the beauty of Islam and its quality of transcending outward barriers.

In this video appeal, produced by islaam.tv, Mutah delivers uplifting updates about brother Amir’s current state and the importance of uniting and maintaining support for him and his family (find out more here how to donate to his legal fund).

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on October 22, 2012 in Campaigns, Videos

 

Tags: , ,

I thought people in America would never tolerate this…

Father of John Walker Lindh, Frank Lindh reminisces about the astonishing lack of outrage concerning the treatment of detainees.

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on October 21, 2012 in Collateral Damage, Videos

 

Tags: , , , ,

Don’t They Deserve Their Father?

Please make dua that these children are reunited with their father. Sign the petition (UKInternational) to demand his release.

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on October 20, 2012 in Campaigns, Videos

 

Tags: , ,

Shaker Aamer Denied Passage Home as Torture Continues

A decade after its vengeful establishment, a post-Bush incarnation of the Guantanamo nightmare persists, continuing to cage 166 Muslim prisoners. One of them is Britisher Shaker Aamer, kept in isolation in Camp 5 Echo. A Decade of Injustice examines possible motivations for keeping Shaker Aamer detained and why his return is urgent.

It is more urgent than ever that we demand his release as Shaker’s recent testimony reveals that abuses at Guantanamo are ongoing:

On July 20, 2011, he reports: ‘The authorities told us, “You’ll have a beautiful Ramadan.” It was in Camp 5, and they said there would be no showers, and no recreation.

They tortured another guy using the nose tube, until he cried. They kept him on a stretcher, with a slow drip on the feed. I banged on the door when this was happening, then fainted from my own lack of eating. I was taken to hospital.’

In a brief explanation of the sleep deprivation, he has stated that he was “sleeping in light,” and there was “no darkness to sleep.” The lighting, as is typical, has been on “24/7″ — and he has also been confined to his cell for 22 hours a day, with just two hours allowed in the recreation yard from 6 am to 8 am every day.

He has explained how he cannot sleep because the guards have been “speaking loud through the night with all kind of noises — cleaning, moving things, shaking the locks of the cell, turning the light on and off,” and how they have also regularly shone a flashlight in his face, and liberally spread detergent like pine oil or Clorox. He has explained how the strong smell fills his cell so that he can’t breathe.   Read the rest of this entry »

 
Leave a comment

Posted by on October 19, 2012 in Campaigns, Videos

 

Tags: , , , , , ,

 
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 243 other followers