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Update on Sheikh Nasr AlFahd and a Plea for continued Dua’ for all Prisoners

All Praises belong to Him, Lord of the Worlds, who ordained glad tidings for the family of Sheikh Nasr al-Fahd, a political prisoner detained in the land of the Haramain for nearly a decade. A December 2012 campaign was launched by Sheikh Ahmad Musa Jibril in which the international community along with activists in Saudi collaboratively called for an end to the unjust imprisonment and torture of the 43 year old sheikh. A month after said social-network campaign demonstrated an outpouring of support and dua’ for Nasr al-Fahd, he was able to call his family for the first time in six years and on January 12, 1013 was permitted a visit equally overdue in years.

The estranged family reported that though his appearance was dramatically altered by a lean structure and grayed beard, his words and peaceful disposition imparted comfort and tranquillity to them. [Video of Sheikh Nasr al-Fahd before imprisonment without gray beard] They witnessed that along with a broken tooth, his hands and legs bore visible scars of torture to corroborate the numerous reports of abuse which he himself confirmed. Despite the obvious physical pain he has undergone, the sheikh insisted that his heart was satisfied and content with the will of Allah. He lifted the spirits of the family with his strong will and by recollecting a happier past, eliciting laughter from everyone, including his hardly recognisable 15 year old son, Usamah, whom he had not seen since eight years of age. He denied false reports of refusing visitors and imparted Salaam to all the Muslims who inquire after him.

This update was provided via Sheikh Ahmad Musa Jibril, who also included a powerful and personal anecdote with regards to continuing your dua’:

Several days ago before the [family] visit, my father (may Allah give him a long life full of deeds) returned from a trip to all three of our sacred Masajid. He told me everywhere he went he made duaa for the oppressed Muslims and this Shiekh in particular. He told me expect good news about him. Let us intensify the duaa. I told the family first good news was the call, then a visit, and the third will be the release InshAllah.

You dua is valuable and vital to the Ummah; Please continue to make Dua’ for all of the Prisoners and the weak and oppressed Muslims everywhere. JazakAllahu Khair.

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Posted by aseerun on February 3, 2013 in Bushara, Campaigns, News Items

Tags: abuse, medical negligence, Nasir alFahad, Nasr al-Fahd, Nasr bin Hamad bin Humaym al-Fahd, Saudi Arabia, torture, War on Family, War on Terror

Tuesday, December 18th: Tweet to End the Torture of Sheikh Nasr al-Fahd

17 Dec

Time Your #Free_Nasr_Alfhd Tweets:

10 PM December 18th London
5 PM December 18th for New York

2 PM December 18th for Los Angeles
3:30 AM December 19th for New Delhi
2 AM December 19th for Dubai
9 AM December 19th for Sydney

Sheikh Nasr bin Hamad bin Humaym al-Fahd descends from the Farahid from the Asa’idah from the Rawaqah from Utaybah, whose ancestors go back to the tribe of Bani Sa’d ibn Bakr ibn Hawazin from ‘Adnan.

Born and raised in Riyadh, in 1992 Nasr al-Fahd graduated from Imam University, College of Shariah in Riyadh at the age of 23 and was appointed as a dean of the College of Usul ad-Din; Department of ‘Aqidah and Contemporary Ideologies. He continued in this post until he was arrested in 1994 and imprisoned until his release and suspension from the university in November 1997.

Sheikh Nasr al-Fahd was re-imprisoned in May 2003 along with two other prominent scholars, Sheikh Ali al-Khudhair and Sheikh Ahmed al-Khalidi, after the three issued a joint statement denouncing a ‘most wanted’ list of 19 men, publicised by the Saudi government.

The scholars argued that because the list was release under the banner of the American ‘War on Terror’, acting on the list provided support to American aggressions abroad and hence forbade republishing the posters or informing on the individuals pursued. Six months following their arrest, imprisonment, and torture, the three men were forced to appear on national television to publicly renounce their religious edicts under the pretence that it would ensure their release.

However, all three scholars were immediately returned to prison from where numerous letters have been smuggled out recanting their televised appearances and reveal that they were forced to make the statements under duress. To this date they remain in custody where they are continually beaten, tortured, denied medical treatment, and housed inhumanely.

In a recent event, former prisoner Sheikh Ahmad Jibril hilighted some of the brutal treatment endured by Sheikh Nasr:

His Teachers

He studied in the College under a group of teachers, the most popular of them:

Sheikh ‘Abdul-‘Aziz bin ‘Abdillah ar-Rajihi
Sheikh ‘Abdul-‘Aziz bin ‘Abdillah al-ash-Sheikh
Sheikh Salih al-Atram
Sheikh ‘Abdullah ar-Rukban
Sheikh Zayd bin Fayyad (rahimahullah)
Sheikh Ahmad Ma’bad
And many others.

His Writings

He has written many books and articles, including:

• The Choices and Opinions of Sheikh ul-Islam in Grammar and Morphology (Printed)
• The Notification of the Oppositions of (the Book) al-’Itisam (Printed)
• Establishing the Evidence for the Obligation of Breaking the False Idols
• The Clarification of the Danger of the Peace Process Against the Muslims
• The Ascertainment of the Issue of Clapping
• Notices Concerning the Books of (Hadith) Checking for Kitab at-Tawhid
• The Censure in Clarification of What the Bayan al-Muthaqqafin Contains of Falsehood
• Jarh wat Ta’dil According to Ibn Hazm adh-Dhahiri, ..etc.

And other beneficial essays and works.

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Posted by aseerun on December 17, 2012 in Biographies, Campaigns

Tags: abuse, medical negligence, Nasir alFahad, Nasr al-Fahd, Nasr bin Hamad bin Humaym al-Fahd, Saudi Arabia, torture, War on Terror

I thought people in America would never tolerate this…

21 Oct

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

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

Tags: abuse, Afghanistan, frank lindh, http://witnesstoguantanamo.com, john walker lindh

Shaker Aamer Denied Passage Home as Torture Continues

19 Oct

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 »

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Posted by aseerun on October 19, 2012 in Campaigns, Videos

Tags: abuse, Action Alert, Guantanamo, Hungerstrike, medical negligence, Shaker Aamer, solitary confinement

From Arrest to Release: An Overview of the UK Prison Experience

14 Oct

“Muslims are breaking records with the judicial system in ways that are not imaginable.”

In 2007, Abdul Muhid was arrested along with three other Muslims for protesting the infamously racist Danish cartoons a year earlier. Convicted and sentenced to six years of imprisonment, he shares his experiences about the British justice system.

His talk covers the minutia involving pre-dawn raids, stop and search laws, repressive bail conditions, unfair trials, faulty evidence, imprisonment, release and probation. Additionally he addresses issues of freedom of speech, rampant racism within law enforcement, physical and psychological torture and abuse directed at Muslim prisoners, as well as the risks of suicide and the importance of sending letters.

The ex-prisoner also inspires with his recollection of Muslim solidarity and brotherhood behind bars and spiritual elevation achieved under such oppressive conditions. Especially touching is Abdul Muhid’s account of the serious tragedy of David English, the chilling horror faced by 17 year old Zahid Mubarak, the remorse inducing gratitude of Khalid al-Fawwaz, Dr. Mohammad Syed Alam’s delicate condition, and the beautiful Omar Khayam’s request to all of you.

For more information on how to fulfil your obligation of writing to and supporting prisoners, please see muslimprisoners.com (UK) and freedetainees.org (US). Prisoner listings can be found in the resources section of the aseerun website.

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Posted by aseerun on October 14, 2012 in Campaigns, Videos

Tags: Abdul Muhid, abuse, Action Alert, babar ahmad, banana suit, Control Order, David English, fabricating terrorism, Khalid al-Fawwaz, letters to prisoners, medical negligence, Mohammed Syed Alam, Omar Khayam, Predawn Raid, prisoner solidarity, probable cause, racism, Stop and Search, suicide attempt, torture, Trial, Zahid Mubarak

Justice is Essential to Mankind

13 Oct

Former prisoner Sheikh Ahmad Musa Jibril on why Ibn Taymiyyah correlates prosperity to justice, explained in the context of abusive conditions in US prisons.

Part One

Part Two

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Posted by aseerun on October 13, 2012 in Maktabah, Videos

Tags: abuse, Ahmad Jibril, CMU, Ibn Taymiyyah, solitary confinement

Sister Lina al-Jarbouni ( لينا الجربوني ) Sent To Solitary Confinement in Israeli Prison

26 Apr

Sister Lina al-Jarbouni is from Arabba Al-Batouf village, near the Palestinian City of Akka (Akko – Acre), in the north of the country. She was born to a Palestinian family on 11 January 1974.

In an illegal attempt to stifle her protesting to her unjust incarceration, the Israeli Prison Administration has placed detainee Lina al-Jarbouni, 37, into solitary confinement at the Ramla Israeli prison. Lina started her hunger-strike on Tuesday, joining thousands of other Palestinian detainees on hunger strike. Her decision made her subject to constant harassment and abuse by her Israeli jailers in an attempt to force her break her strike.

Sources close to her family stated that soldiers of the “Nachshon” brigade, operating in Israeli prisons and detention camps, forced Lina into solitary confinement at the Ramla Prison after transferring her from the Ha-Sharon prison.

On 18 April 2002, Lina was arrested and interrogated for more than thirty days at the Al-Jalama interrogation facility where she was tortured and abused. She was subsequently sentenced by an Israeli court to seventeen years imprisonment for what Israel calls “contacting an enemy”, and “aiding a suicide bombing”. Israel refused to release Al-Jarbouni during the Shalit Prison-Swap deal with the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.

There are more than 4.600 Arab political prisoners held by Israel according to the Ad-Dameer Prison Support Association who issued the latest figures on 17 April; Palestinian Prisoners Day. The vast majority are from the West Bank, while approximately four-hundred and seventy-five are from the Gaza Strip, and three-hundred and sixty are from Israeli controlled East Jerusalem and the 1948 territories.

Israel is still holding captive six women, one-hundred and eighty-three (183) children, like the infant Yusuf al-Zaq who along with his mother is held captive in Israeli prisons. Twenty-seven democratically-elected Palestinian legislators, including Marwan Barghouthi who was sentenced to more than five life-terms, legislator Jamal Terawi, who was sentenced to 30 years, and Ahmad Sa’adat who was sentenced to 30 years. In addition, 24 legislators are currently being held under Administrative Detention orders without charges.

Over one-hundred and twenty Palestinian detainees have been imprisoned since before the first Oslo peace agreement was signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1993, twenty-three of them have been imprisoned for more than 25 years.

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Posted by aseerun on April 26, 2012 in News Items

Tags: abuse, Ad-Dameer Prison Support Association, administrative abuse, Administrative Detention Order, Ha-Sharon Prison, israel, Lina Al-Jarbouni, Ramla Israeli Prison, torture, لينا الجربوني, يوسف الزق, Yusuf al-Zaq

Israr Malik: April 2012 (They are torturing the Muslims…)

23 Apr

In the name of Allah

The Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Assalamu Alaykum.

Praise be to Allah who has invited us for His sake, will make us meet for His sake, love for His sake, depart for His sake and … for His sake Only for His sake.

Dearest brother, may Allah grant you peace in this life, and inshAllah make you be those whom you love. InshaAllah Jannatul Firdos.

It was nice to finally speak to you, it’s been missions trying to get your no. put on but Alhamdulillah, it’s on now.

Akhi where do you want me to start with how these ‘people’ treat me in this place. When I arrived at this prison I read a leaflet, telling us how “we welcome people” to the establishment. The officers, three of them, took me in to the strip search area stripped me of my clothes and punched me black and blue. May Allah deal with them, the police was involved but “no camera footage”. What a lie. Brother ever since then, the racial, religious and Islamic hatred. These officers are torturing the Muslims within the prison system, I don’t even know if this letter will even get to you. And they call me a terrorist what they are doing to me. Brother more bad things are going on but inshaAllah just make dua Allah strengthens us to foil there attacks on us and pray that Allah reveals what they have in their hearts so we can see why Allah chooses us over them.

Brother I’m going to ring you soon inshAllah. If you write back brother make sure it’s recorded so I sign for it, so I know I get it inshAllah.

Love you for the sake of Allah

Your little bro
Israr

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Posted by aseerun on April 23, 2012 in Letters from Israr Malik, Risala

Tags: abuse, administrative abuse, beating, http://www.muslimprisoners.com, Israr Malik, percussive torture, torture

Will Fatima Bouchar’s Nightmare Hold US-UK Accountable for Extraordinary Renditions?

10 Apr

Special report: Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials

In 2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were detained en route to the UK, and rendered to Libya. This is the story of their imprisonment, and the trail of evidence that reveals the involvement of the British government.

Just when Fatima Bouchar thought it couldn’t get any worse, the Americans forced her to lie on a stretcher and began wrapping tape around her feet. They moved upwards, she says, along her legs, winding the tape around and around, binding her to the stretcher. They taped her stomach, her arms and then her chest. She was bound tight, unable to move.

Bouchar says there were three Americans: two tall, thin men and an equally tall woman. Mostly they were silent. She never saw their faces: they dressed in black and always wore black balaclavas. Bouchar was terrified. They didn’t stop at her chest – she says they also wound the tape around her head, covering her eyes. Then they put a hood and earmuffs on her. She was unable to move, to hear or to see. “My left eye was closed when the tape was applied,” she says, speaking about her ordeal for the first time. “But my right eye was open, and it stayed open throughout the journey. It was agony.” The journey would last around 17 hours.

Bouchar, then aged 30, had become a victim of the process known as extraordinary rendition. She and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a Libyan Islamist militant fighting Muammar Gaddafi, had been abducted in Bangkok and were being flown to one of Gaddafi’s prisons in Libya, a country where she had never before set foot. However, Bouchar’s case is different from the countless other renditions that the world has learned about over the past few years, and not just because she was one of the few female victims.

Documents discovered in Tripoli show that the operation was initiated by British intelligence officers, rather than the masked Americans or their superiors in the US. There is also some evidence that the operation may have been linked to a second British-initiated operation, which saw two men detained in Iraq and rendered to Afghanistan. Furthermore, the timing of the operation, and the questions that Bouchar’s husband and a second rendition victim say were subsequently put to them under torture, raise disturbing new questions about the secret court system that considers immigration appeals in terrorist cases in the UK – a system that the government has pledged to extend to civil trials in which the government itself is the defendant.

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Posted by aseerun on April 10, 2012 in Collateral Damage, News Items

Tags: Abdel Hakim Belhaj, Abdullah al-Sadiq, Abu Munthir al-Saadi, abuse, Aero Contractors, Amanatullah Ali, CIA, Cori Crider, Extraordinary Rendition, Fatima Bouchar, Gaddafi, Gareth Peirce, Jack Straw, Libya, LIFG, Mark Allen, MI6, Moussa Koussa, N313P, Operation Aston, physical abuse, Reprieve, Sapna Malik, secret prisons, SIAC, Tajoura, torture, Yunus Rahmatullah

Guantanamo: Survivors Reminisce Ghost Lives

12 Mar

“My words are not enough to describe what happened to me. They have taken us completely naked across the tarmac, dogs have attacked us, incredible, such inhumanity. As a teacher, I taught English to the Afghans and told them about the American dream. The U.S. should have been grateful to me. ” Sami al-Laith, 3 years and 10 months of captivity

He must have been an impressive lecturer; tall, sharp-witted, and an air of natural authority. A sharp intellect is the only thing that remains of Sami al-Laithy. He sits slumped in a wheelchair, his back and neck acutely in pain with every movement.

For six years he has lived in this dark room in what remains of his grandfather’s former mansion in al-Gharbia, Egypt. The columns at the entrance are witnesses to a past fortune. Now rain falls through the ceiling and black mold spots spread on the old walls.

In addition to Sami, 56, his mother and younger brother with his wife and four children live in the house. The brother lost his job as a translator in the Ministry of Defence because Sami was trapped in Guantanamo. The family has hardly enough money to buy food.

In his rickety wheelchair, Sami al-Laithy cannot maneuver without help on the muddy path outside the house. Trapped in the room, he stares at the walls. “The Americans,” he says, “have destroyed me, my health, my soul, my future.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by aseerun on March 12, 2012 in News Items

Tags: Abd al-Salaam Zaheef as-Saif, Abubaker Qassim, abuse, David Hicks, Guantanamo, Mohammed el Gharani, Omar Deghayes, Sami al-Laithi, torture