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Khaled Ben Mustafa: A Day in Guantanamo

23 Oct

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).

 

 

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Posted by aseerun on October 23, 2012 in Videos

 

Tags: france, Guantanamo, http://witnesstoguantanamo.com, Khaled Ben Mustafa, Morocco, Prison Life, WikiLeaks

Brother Adlène Hicheur is Free!

17 May

!!!الحمد الله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات و الله اكبر

Praise is to Allah Who by His Blessing all good things are perfected, Allah is the Greatest!!!

We are pleased to convey the news that our brother, Dr. Adlène Hicheur has finally been released, after nearly three long years, from the dungeons of France on 15 May, and All Praise is due to Allah alone.

Brother Hicheur was detained in 2009, while working as a postdoctoral researcher in high-energy physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He had been detained in Fresnes Prison near Paris ever since his arrest.

Two days before national elections, Dr. Hicheur was found guilty of plotting with al-Qaeda of Islamic Maghrib (AQIM) to carry out terror attacks on French targets. His case hinged on the presentation of emails exchanged with an unknown individual, soleilde36@yahoo.fr., whom it has even been speculated did not exist.

On 4 May, 2012, a French court sentenced the French-Algerian physicist to four years in prison.

The two and a half years that Adlène Hicheur has already spent in jail was deducted from his four year sentence. An additional year was suspended because he was born in Sétif, the scene of a brutal massacre of Algerian civilians by colonial French occupiers in 1945.

The court also ordered the confiscation of €15,000 (US$19,500) that Hicheur had transferred to Algeria for a property purchase, as well as his computer equipment used for professional research.

Speaking after the verdict had been handed down, Mr. Baudouin, his solicitor, denounced what he described as a “humiliation”.

The fruits of his research, his intellectual work, has been confiscated. He may be supported by over 400 physicists from around the world, including a Nobel Prize winner [Jack Steinberger], but it will be difficult for him to resume his professional life on his release. We feel that the intention is to break him, to humiliate him.

Dr. Hicheur had declined to appeal the verdict despite his innocence for it would entail him remaining in prison for at least another eight months.

We ask Allah to keep him safe, to soothe the hearts of him and his family, to keep them steadfast and to increase them in the best of this world and The Next. Ameen. We also ask Him that He Frees our many brothers and sisters held in the prisons of the oppressors, Ameen Ya Rab!

 

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Posted by aseerun on May 17, 2012 in Bushara

 

Tags: Adlene Hicheur, france

Help Your Homeless Brother Yassine Reunite with His Family & Return Home!

05 Jan

The Prophet, ﷺ said:

‘Helping a traveler in a land he does not know is sadaqah.’

Yassine Ferchichi is a Tunisian national who fled persecution from his country of origin. He was arrested and sentenced in France on terrorism charges. His conviction was largely based on statements made by M’hamed Benyamina under torture in Algerian custody. In 2009, Yassine Ferchichi was illegally deported from France – forcefully expelled to Senegal (he was wrapped in tape and thrown on a plane by french police) in direct opposition with a decision of the European Court of Human Rights. Since then, he has been living homeless without any legal document without documents; condemned to wander.

Today, Tunisia finally accepts his return; he can, after all his years in difficulty, finally return to his family, to see his mother he has not seen for many years! Allahu Akbar!

Fraternité Musulmane Sanâbil therefore appeals to your generosity to support the administrative costs and the ticket for his flight, for a total of € 450, which will allow him to finally be reunited with his family and a chance at returning to a life of normalcy.

Make a Donation

If you would like to help with your contribution click the button on the left to make a donation. Be sure to specify that the donation is for Yassine.

Help our brother to take off with his family, return to his home, and turn the page on these years of difficulty! Yassin is counting on you!

::Fraternité Musulmane Sanâbil::

May Allah reward you!

 

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Posted by aseerun on January 5, 2012 in Campaigns

 

Tags: Action Alert, france, http://www.cageprisoners.com, http://www.sanabil.fr/, M’hamed Benyamina, Sanabil, Senegal, Tunis, Yassine Ferchichi

Enseveli dans l’Oubliette des terroristes français

20 Oct

Few months ago, the European Court of human rights confirmed the admissibility of a complaint made by Babar Ahmad, Haroon Rashid Aswat and Syed Talha Ahsan. Their extradition to the US was prevented since the stringency of the conditions at ADX Florence (a “supermax” prison) for what might be the rest of their lives, inhumane or degrading treatment. The plight of Bradley Manning, the alleged wikileaks “leaker”, has also shed light upon the infamous treatment of detainees placed in solitary confinement in US custody.

Many international instruments have affirmed that prisoners have the right to be dealt with in a way compatible with human dignity and that they should be safe from any form of degrading treatment. The UN Human Rights Committee, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Commission on Human rights have stated that isolation, in certain conditions, can constitute a cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment. Different factors need to be taken into account such as the stringency of the measure, its duration, the objective pursued and the effects it has on the person. We sometimes stay focused on the American carceral system due to its reputation. However, a text written by Djamel Beghal in the darkness of his cell shows us the ignominy of solitary confinement in French prisons.

Djamel Beghal has spent nine years under this regime. He has been transferred from cell to cell, from prison to prison, always living under the same harsh conditions. His account is shameful and horrendous.

Djamel spends 22 or 23 hours alone in his cell. He is allowed a recreation time in a minuscule space, always alone and indoors. He can never see another inmate. When he is displaced for any reason, the floor or the whole prison is blocked. Only the senior guard is permitted to talk to him or even to open the door of his cell. The shower and the recreational space are situated just in front of his dungeon and going there allows no more than five steps across the corridor. He is taken there by three to five guards.

The vastest room in which Djamel was incarcerated barely reached 9 meters square. He measured one of his cells in a Parisian prison with a small ruler. Result: 5 meters square. His cell is composed of an iron bed with an uncomfortable fireproof mattress. Bed sheets are torn and blankets have a strong and unpleasant smell, giving rise to skin allergies. Every single furniture is fixed in the wall. The table is as high as his chest. Even eating or writing becomes a painful exercise.  Read the rest of this entry »

 

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Posted by aseerun on October 20, 2011 in News Items

 

Tags: ADX Florence, babar ahmad, Bradley Manning, Djamel Beghal, france, Haroon Rashid Aswat, http://freedjamelbeghal.wordpress.com, http://freemyfamily.wordpress.com/, isolation, pretrial detention, Santé prison, solitary confinement, Syed Talha Ahsan, torture

Djamel Beghal a Calusualty in the Advent of America & Europe’s War on Islam

13 Oct

Written by Arnaud Mafille
Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Ten years after the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, many in America, in Europe or in the Muslim world now challenge the western presence there. In 2001, some of those sentiments already existed but were covered by the trauma of 9/11.  In that context of fear and emotion, the announcement of the arrest of a European “al Qaeda lieutenant” was a key element to conduct and justify the invasion of Afghanistan both in France and the UK.

On 7 October 2001, allied armed forces officially launched “Operation Enduring Freedom”, the invasion of Afghanistan. The enemy had been designated and the US and the UK governments had secret evidence proving that Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks and the Taliban were the helpers of Al Qaeda. Questions regarding the official line were not given any weight.

Emotion and fear were also at their pinnacle in France. When George W. Bush Jr sent an ultimatum to the Taliban regime only few days after the 9/11, the French population was wondering if their military should be part of the foreseeable invasion of Afghanistan.  Read the rest of this entry »

 

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Posted by aseerun on October 13, 2011 in News Items

 

Tags: abduction, Al-Qaeda, Bruguière, Bush, Cageprisoners, chemical torture, CIA, DGSE, Djamel Beghal, forced confession, france, George W. Bush Jr., http://www.cageprisoners.com, hyperthermic torture, Jack Straw, Jean-Louis Bruguière, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, MI6, Operation Enduring Freedom, Osama bin Laden, rape, rendition, sexual abuse, sleep deprivation, Taliban, torture, UAE, UK, US

Djamel Beghal: Date Unknown (My Story)

13 Oct

In summary, it is the same again and again …

If you are Muslim, more or less young, bearded, attending a mosque, who has childhood friends, neighbours or co workers sharing the same convictions, if you communicate between each other – like everyone else – by phone … This, then, becomes an ideal “terrorist” cell, a network of “sleepers” to perfection, which, tomorrow might need to make one of JT and the press’s headlines. This cell can then be yet another addition to the hunt bag of French terrorist hunters. These hunters, who in reality are the antiterrorist judges, specialise in this field. In the legal domain, they are specialists only in the morbid arts of burying the living in the graveyards of solitary confinement and legal torture, as well as in the arts of making false records, resemblances of cases and fantastical accusations.

As for the sentences, they distribute the maximum possible on those who are culturally educated and well instructed to make them seem like the heads. They make the rest look like a bunch of blunt knives and give them just under the maximum sentence, which holds the same torments of destroying their familial, professional and social lives.

Recent revelations in Wikileaks, relayed by the daily Le Monde, 1 December 2010, written by Piotr Smolar, whose courage I salute (it is rare to see such evidence from a journalist when it comes to judicial French injustice committed with impunity against, what is meant by term, Islamists), finally gave credible evidence and a voice to the somewhat muffled cries that I have been consistently pushing from the abyssal areas of `total isolation and legal torture’ of the French prisons for the past ten years!  Read the rest of this entry »

 

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Posted by aseerun on October 13, 2011 in Letters from Djamel Beghal, Risala

 

Tags: 9/11, Algeria, CIA, DGSE, Djamel Beghal, extrajudicial detention, fabricating terrorism, france, http://www.djamel-beghal.com, isolation, Jean-Francois Ricard, Jean-Louis Bruguière, Judge Jean-Francois Ricard, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, Judge Philippe Vandingenen, MI6, Murat Prison, Nizar Trabelsi, Philippe Vandingenen, pretrial detention, Rendetion, SDAT, solitary confinement, Sub-Directorate Anti-Terrorism, torture

Action Alert: Write to the French authorities about the case of Djamel Beghal

13 Oct

Please take action for Djamel Beghal who was convicted due to statements taken under the duress of torture. Cageprisoners wants you to help push the French government into establishing an inquiry which will re-examine his case.

Take Action

Write or send an email (scroll down and enter first your name and first name, then your email address, then the object: (affaire Beghal), and then copy and paste the following message) to the French Minister of justice to request:

• The opening of an investigation against the judges Bruguiere and Ricard
• The nullification and revision of the judgement that condemned Djamel Beghal and his co-accused as well as the immediate nullification of any measures that would still affect them.

If you are a French citizen or a French resident, please contact your MP to request him to raise the issue in the Parliament and press for a government inquiry. In order to send a message to the French Minister of Justice, please use the following link and the sample letter below:  Read the rest of this entry »

 

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Posted by aseerun on October 13, 2011 in Campaigns

 

Tags: Action Alert, Algeria, Cageprisoners, Djamel Beghal, fabricating terrorism, france, http://www.cageprisoners.com, http://www.djamel-beghal.com, Rendetion, torture

Fabricating terrorism in France

17 Jul

Written by Arnaud Mafille

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Recently, a leading French anti-terrorist judge has been accused of perjury and obstruction of justice. He is suspected of having voluntarily misled an inquiry of which he was in charge for political interests.This case is not isolated. It simply highlights some of the methods used to manipulate the judiciary and public opinion in order to create Muslim terrorist plots that might not exist. In effect, the very same judge has been subject to accusations as grave as cooperating with countries known for their use of torture and other manoeuvres to build up cases against alleged terrorists.

Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière

Since the beginning of the War on Terror, France has been an ally of the US post 9/11. The US administration appears to be especially impressed with the French anti-terrorist machinery at the domestic level as highlighted by American diplomats in a cable revealed by Wikileaks. The country was said to be “known for its counterterrorism forces and judiciary”.

For many years, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière undoubtedly led the French judicial campaign in the War on Terror. His methods were unusual not to say expeditive. Few voices would point out blatant violation of basic rights of the defence, but such voices have been left unheard. It was mainly because no major bombings occurred in France after 9/11. Many would attribute this “calmness” to the approach developed by Judge Bruguière. In other words, the method might be a bit rough but it works.

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Posted by aseerun on July 17, 2011 in News Items

 

Tags: Anti-terrorism, Antiterrorism, Cageprisoners, corruption, Djamel Beghal, entrapment, fabricating terrorism, france, French judiciary, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, rendition

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