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An Open Letter to the American Government: Transfer Our Husband to Guantanamo…

… It’s Much More Merciful

Peace upon those who follow the guidance:

We the undersigned Nouzha Amrani and Fatiha Hassani (Um Adam El-Mejjati), the lawful wives of Moulay Umar Amrani Hadi who is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment unjustly. He is constantly being transferred to and from Toulal 2 prison and Sale’ 2 prison. We appeal to the American government to transfer its prisoner from its previously mentioned prisons to its detention centre in Guantanamo, Cuba.

This is for the following reasons:

Your prisoner suffers from various chronic illnesses, he is 47 years old, yet he is always subjected to torture. Bearing in mind he was sentenced to prison only not prison and torture.

Types of torture:

Psychological torture:

Subjecting him to constant psychological pressure by, Provocation, humiliation, Insults and threats. He is held in a wing with the general prison population where cigarette smoke fills the air, abusive language is the norm and there is constant noise that prevents him from sleeping. For nine months he has been held in solitary confinement, in a very small cell that lacks the conditions for human residence. He was put in a punishment cell twice within three months. He is prevented from direct visits (without barriers), and being with his wife Nouzha Amrani. They suffice with a barrier visit, even his kids, Abdulrahman, 7, and Zainab, 5. Since three weeks ago his son visited him without a barrier for 15 minutes only in an office. They had a desk in-between them and were surrounded by guards. Zainab refused to go to the visit because of what she experienced before. She would remember the barriers and small windows and the fact she couldn’t sit with her father nor kiss him. He is prevented from seeing his second wife Um Adam, since the 4^th of July 2011, even if the visit is a barrier visit. This continues although she has legal permission from the general prosecutor of the King in Meknes. The prison administration and all those behind it, have sought to hinder the process of completing a legal (marriage) contract, bearing in mind we have completed all the necessary procedures on our part from the date of the 28^th of February 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by aseerun on February 12, 2012 in Collateral Damage, News Items

Tags: Ahmed Hu, beating, Benghazi, Casablanca, Fatiha Hassani, Fez, forced nudity, Guantanamo, hyperthermic torture, medical negligence, Mohammed al-Sabbar, Morocco, Moulay Umar Amrani Hadi, Nouzha Amrani, percussive torture, physical abuse, psychological torture, Sale Prison, Sale Prison 2, sleep deprivation, solitary, solitary confinement, torture, Toulal Prison 2, Um Adam El-Mejjati

The Case of Gulet Mohamed: Brutalised Abroad at the Behest of America

11 Feb

Gulet Mohamed was an average 18-year-old American citizen before a visit to family overseas resulted in his torture and indefinite detention in a Kuwaiti prison.

Mohamed, whose family is Somali, immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of three, fleeing the devastating civil war that ravaged that East African country.

Mohed Mohamed, his older brother, maintained that his family, having fled Somalia in 1995, has always been pro-American and grateful to the United States for its intervention in Somalia’s civil war in the 1990s.

Zahra Mohamed, his sister, explained that Gulet, like any other American teenager, grew up playing basketball, had an iPhone, and obsessed over the game Madden NFL. But like many American teenagers, Gulet had a bad case of wanderlust. He wanted to travel abroad to learn more about his heritage, Zahra explained.

He begged his mother to let him leave: after all, he had never known his father, and he wanted to learn Arabic. Traveling to the Middle East would let him get to know his father’s side of the family, rediscover his roots, experience his ancestral homeland, and learn the language of the Quran.

In March, 2009, Gulet Mohamed departed from Alexandria, Virginia to study Arabic and Islam in in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Gulet, the most adventurous of the seven siblings, was the first member of his family to travel outside the United States since the family’s relocation.

After several weeks of study, he left to visit his maternal relations in Somalia at his mother’s insistence. Residing in his uncle’s home for several months, Gulet found the environs uncomfortably hot and painfully sickening through bouts of food poisoning that left his youthful wanderlust unsated. Mohamed again ventured to visit other family living in Kuwait and to continue his studies in Arabic.

Throughout his journey of seeking knowledge and rekindling the ties of kinship, Mohamed traveled on an authentic American passport with valid visas for all of the countries on his whimsical itinerary. His past history had no indication of any violent or criminal activity, nor had he ever been arrested.

Yet, on December 20, 2010, when Mohamed went to the airport in Kuwait City to have his visa renewed (a process he had routinely engaged in every three months without incident for the past year), he was told by a visa officer that his name had been “marked” in the computer.

After five hours of uneasily waiting, Mohamed had finished sending his brother an email when he was handcuffed, blindfolded, and kidnapped by two men in civilian clothes. After a fifteen minute drive in a SUV, Mohamed was deposited in an undisclosed location. He was then dragged into a room and interrogated by officials who refused to identify themselves.

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Posted by aseerun on February 11, 2012 in Flashback

Tags: torture, Yemen, Rendetion, eric holder, somali, rendered, Somalia, Anwar al-Awlaki, FBI misconduct, Anwar al-Aulaqi, sleep deprivation, FBI coercion, Kuwait, Refugee, unlawful interrogation, Gulet Mohamed, Mohed Mohamedm Zahra Mohamed, Sana’a, falaqa, percussive torture, Gadeir Abbas, proxy detention, proxy interrogation

Heart Breaking! The Case of Shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a and his wife.

28 Jan

The Case of Shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a and his wife.

The joint committee received this letter from Shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a. He wrote it while he was being held in Kenitra central prison, in which he was subjected to barbaric torture after he was arbitrarily transferred on the 9th of October 2010. He was on hunger strike since the 6th of December 2010 while he was there until he was between life and death. He wrote this letter then speaking about the kidnapping he and his wife have been through and detention and torture in Temera secret detention centre and other secret centers.

He is now is solitary confinement, cut off the world around him in Toulal 2 prison, Meknes. He is one of those accused of being behind the Sala prison clashes (16-17/May/2011) or what is known by “Salé Zaki prison riot”

All praise is due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon his messenger, his family, his companions and those who adhere to him.

To proceed:

I am shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a, who is currently held in Kenitra central prison. Prisoner number: 26512, I am the one signed below, Nourdine Nafi’a who is sentenced to 20 years based on fabricated evidence under the guise of “combating terror”. I reiterate that I am innocent of all charges against me. I am a victim of American policies in the region. To clarify this I will outline what I and my wife have been through of suffering and violations in the dungeons of the secret services.

I am a Moroccan citizen, a member of the Islamic movement since the 80s. A Muslim, Sunni, following the Quran and the noble traditions of the prophet, according to the understanding of our pious predecessors such as Imam Malik, Shafi’i, Ahmed, Abu Hanifa may Allah have mercy upon them. I migrated from my homeland in 1988 to Afghanistan for the intention of joining the “Jihad”. It was not possible to go to Palestine, between me and it were thousands of barriers because of the “Arab cordon states”. My first stop was Europe and after repeated attempts I managed to travel to Pakistan in 1991, then to Afghanistan after the fall of the communist government. I made that country my homeland. In 1998 I left Afghanistan for Syria, Damascus, where I married the sister of Yassine al-Shaqori who is held is Guantanamo may Allah hasten his release. I began to trade to support my family, travelling between Syria and Turkey for trade. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by ansaraseerun on January 28, 2012 in News Items

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Mother & Three Children Abducted in Mecca by KSA ‘Security’ Forces

17 Oct

Adulrahman, Jana and Nammur, three Saudi children aged 4, 8 and 13 years old, are currently detained along with their mother in Dhabhan prison, North-West of Jeddah. They were arrested nine months ago after their mother, Hanane Abdurrahman Samkari, protested in front of the Ministry of Interior with other wives of detainees against her husband’s illegal detention. Mohammed Al-Jazairy, the father of the three children and Hanane’s husband has been imprisoned for eight years without any charge.

Saturday 25th of December 2010, in the middle of the night, men in civilian clothes entered Hanane’s appartment in Hay Al-Zaher district, Mecca by force. Without uttering a word, they arrested the mother and her three children, then took all their personal belongings, including laptops, cellular phones and jewellery. Hanane’s family only learned months later that on 17 February they had been transfered to Dhabhan prison, a ‘high security’ detention centre where political prisoners and persons accused of ‘terrorism’ are detained.

Cells continuously illuminated, surveillance cameras watching the family without interruption, psychological pressure and torture of the mother and the children by the female prison guards, the screams and sounds of the torture of other prisoners piercing the cell walls… Their detention conditions are dire. Their family managed to get a permit to visit Hanane in prison, who explained to her family that the female guards, seeking to exert psychological pressure on her, would come into the cell, take her children one by one and bring them back hours or days later in very weak psychological states.

As thousands of other Saudi families, Hanane and her children are deprived of a husband, a father who have been languishing in the Kingdom’s jails for years without any legal proceedings. Alongside only a few wives of detainees who share the same plight, Hanane dared to protest against the conditions of detention of her husband, asking the Saudi authorities to judge or release him. Dedicated to her fight against this injustice, this mother helped other wives of detainees and coordinated their actions throughout the country by organising sit-ins in front of the Ministeries of Interior and Justice. The 38 year-old mother still does not know what accusations – if any – have been officially brought against her. It appears however that it was her activism and her fight to obtain the release of her husband and other prisoners which led her and her children to share the same plight as her husband.

Today, Alkarama submitted to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on Torture an urgent appeal regarding the situation of Hanane and her three children, asking them to intervene with the Saudi authorities to obtain the release of the entire families. Alkarama calls upon the authorities to release all prisoners arbitrarily detained in the country and in particular the Kingdom’s youngest prisoner 4 year-old Abdulrahman Al Jazairy. Not only Alkarama is extremely concerned by Hanane’s detention but also wishes to shed light upon her children’s situation.

Currently detained in disastrous conditions, their very detention in this prison is unacceptable and contrary to International Human Rights Conventions ratified by Saudi Arabia, especially the Convention on the right to the child. Whereas they should – as set forth in the international convention – « grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding » and benefit from « special care and assistance », Abdulrahman, Jana and Nammur are currently locked in a tiny cell amongst criminals and subjected to physical and psychological mistreatment.

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Posted by aseerun on October 17, 2011 in News Items

Tags: arbitrary detention, child prisoners, collective punishment, extrajudicial detention, Hanane Abdurrahman Samkari, http://en.alkarama.org, Mohammed Al-Jazairy, Saudi Arabia, sleep deprivation, torture, War on Family

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

Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a: December 2010 (I am overpowered, so help me!)

15 Dec

All praise is due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon his messenger, his family, his companions and those who adhere to him.

To proceed:

I am shaykh Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a, who is currently held in Kenitra central prison. Prisoner number: 26512, I am the one signed below, Nourdine Nafi’a who is sentenced to 20 years based on fabricated evidence under the guise of “combating terror”. I reiterate that I am innocent of all charges against me. I am a victim of American policies in the region. To clarify this I will outline what I and my wife have been through of suffering and violations in the dungeons of the secret services.

I am a Moroccan citizen, a member of the Islamic movement since the 80s. A Muslim, Sunni, following the Quran and the noble traditions of the prophet, according to the understanding of our pious predecessors such as Imam Malik, Shafi’i, Ahmed, Abu Hanifa may Allah have mercy upon them. I migrated from my homeland in 1988 to Afghanistan for the intention of joining the “Jihad”. It was not possible to go to Palestine, between me and it were thousands of barriers because of the “Arab cordon states”. My first stop was Europe and after repeated attempts I managed to travel to Pakistan in 1991, then to Afghanistan after the fall of the communist government. I made that country my homeland. In 1998 I left Afghanistan for Syria, Damascus, where I married the sister of Yassine Al-Shaqori who is held is Guantanamo may Allah hasten his release. I began to trade to support my family, travelling between Syria and Turkey for trade.

In the very same year we found out that my wife had a tumor in her head. Hence I used to travel from one hospital to another and from country to another. I increased in my trade transactions and interaction to be able to pay off treatment and travel costs. This continued until I managed with the help of other business men to set up an import and export office. In (Year not mentioned) a doctor advised that it was necessary for my wife to have laser treatment to remove the tumor or she would be in danger of losing her sight. They advised me to travel to Jeddah to carry out the operation. We tried but we couldn’t get a visa for Umrah for Ramadhan 1423 AH, November 2002CE. Some tradesmen advised us to travel to Mauritania where citizenship is relatively easy to get and then to travel to Saudi during the hajj season.

That is what we did. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted by aseerun on December 15, 2010 in Letters from Abu Mouadh Nourdine Nafi’a, Risala