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My Brother Faris has Never seen his Father

(January 2010)

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Dear Gordon Brown,

I hope you are in good health. I am writing to ask you for my father’s release. As you might know, my father has been away for 8 years, he was taken away since I was four years old. It has been most of my life.

My brother Faris has never seen his father and misses him a lot. Sometimes he thinks other people are his father. Once a man came to do our garden, Faris (has) a lot of fun and laughs with him. When he left, Faris asked my Mum, “Is that my Dad?” He has never felt what it’s like to be with a father or to go out with him.  Faris has had no experience at all of what it’s like to have a father just like every child does.

My mother is very patient but sometimes when she misses him too much she gets depressed. My mother is also a psychiatric patient. Whenever she gets depressed we have to go to my grandparents’ house where my grandparents look after her. When she is ill she is in bed day and night and can’t do much. I really hate it when she gets depressed.

At school, when it is time to go home, most of the children have their fathers pick them up which makes me miss him even more. I never really go[t] to do things with my father.

Also there is no reason for my father to be in prison. There have never been any charges made against him and he is innocent. My father has suffered for eight years in prison for no reason. I hope there can be a change now. He has got so many illnesses such as asthma and many physical problems. He is also the only British resident there.

I take that you understand this as a father and a husband. Nobody would like to be separated from their fathers or mothers. It is not nowhere near fun to be without a father we’ve missed so much.

I hope this letter can make a difference and that my father is released as soon as possible.

Thank you.

From

Johina Aamer
Daughter of Shaker Aamer

                Your Urgent Action for Shaker Aamer is needed now.      .

 
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Posted by on December 1, 2011 in Collateral Damage

 

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Action Alert: Shaker Aamer is Gradually Dying; Your Action is Needed Urgently!

It is vital that the British Government secure the immediate release of Shaker Aamer, the alternative, namely inaction, could mean sentencing Shaker to a slow lingering death.

Shaker Aamer’s life is in danger. Human rights charity Reprieve director Clive Stafford Smith saw Shaker last week and was “horrified at what he found”. The view of Clive Stafford Smith Director of Reprieve is that he is gradually dying in Guantánamo. Shaker has made it absolutely clear he is totally innocent of any crime. His incarceration in Guantánamo, the conditions in which he has been held, the abuse and torture he has undergone, have led to his present terrible state of health. It is now known he is suffering from many ailments – arthritis, asthma, prostate problems, pains in his kidneys and neck, shoulder and back pain resulting from beatings – a direct result of his unjust imprisonment.

The Save Shaker Aamer Campaign (SSAC) has repeatedly requested the UK Government make a full medical assessment and regularly monitor Shaker’s health as well as the conditions in which he has been held. This is the very least British Governments should have done over the last 10 years since Shaker’s detention and rendition by the two US Administrations. Such action should be carried out by the British Government immediately. There can be no reason not to do this.

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