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Nizar Trabelsi to Remain Behind Bars

An Antwerp court has ruled that the convicted terrorist Nizar Trabelsi must remain behind bars. The court dismissed a probation request lodged by Trabelsi through his solicitor Marc Neve. The ruling goes against an earlier decision by Hasselt (Limburg) magistrates to release the Tunisian.

 

The federal judicial authorities lodged an appeal and this has resulted in the earlier decision having been overturned.

The 42-year-old former professional footballer has already served a ten-year sentence for his part in a plan to attack the Kleine Brogel military airbase in Limburg province.

As he has already served his time, Hasselt magistrates ruled that he should be released. However, the federal judicial authorities didn’t agree and an appeal was lodged and this has resulted in the early decision having been overturned.

It is possible that Nizar Trabelsi could be extradited to the United States. The US authorities want to put the Tunisian on trial on charges of planning an attack on American citizens abroad.

If tried and convicted there, Nizar Trabelsi risks spending the rest of his days in an American gaol.

His legal team are currently fighting the extradition request at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Trabelsi will remain in custody awaiting a ruling from Strasbourg.

Source: http://www.deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/news/120906_Trabelsi

 
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Posted by on September 7, 2012 in News Items

 

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Nizar Trabelsi Extradition to US Denied – For Now…

Nizar Trabelsi won’t be extradited to the US (for the time being).

Nizar Trabelsi was arrested in Belgium shortly after 9/11 and in 2004 he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment after being accused of planing to attack the NATO base at Kleine Brogel in Belgium.

As American lives would allegedly have been endangered by an attack that never happened on Kleine Brogel, the United States authorities want to try Trabelsi as well so they requested his extradiction in 2007.

Nizar believes that the real reason the Americans want his deportation is to enable them to interrogate him about his contacts in Afghanistan and the Guantánamo prison camp in Cuba. If convicted in the US, Nizar would risk being sentenced to life imprisonment in an American gaol.

Now that his release is near (he was expected to be released in March 2012) Belgian Minister of (in)Justice, Stefaan De Clerck, signed and agreed with the extradition request from the US. Nizar immediately contacted the European Court of Human Rights as soon as he learned of Mr De Clerck’s decision to sign the extradition papers. The court has postponed Nizar’s extradition awaiting a definitive ruling.

The (now former) Minister of Justice Stefaan De Clerck said not to be surprised by the European Court of Human right’s decision. He added that Mr Trabelsi is also fighting his extradition in the Council of State.
Mr De Clerck stressed that if a decision is not forthcoming before March 2012, Mr Trabelsi could be held in temporary detention awaiting extradition.

 
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Posted by on December 13, 2011 in News Items, Uncategorized

 

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Djamel Beghal: Date Unknown (My Story)

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 on October 13, 2011 in Letters from Djamel Beghal, Risala

 

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