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Rabeh Osman: August 22, 2010 (Where are the Muslims? Where are the free men? Where are the honourable men?)

All praise is due to Allah and peace and blessing be upon his messenger, family and companions

Assalaamu ‘alaykum warahmatullaahi wabarakaatuhu,

Firstly I advise you and myself to obey Allah, depend on him in all affairs and to be patient with His decree.

I sent you many letters previously which were held back by the prison, I pray to Allah that this letter reaches you. We are well, all Praise is due to Allah, we miss your news and the news of the Muslims around the world. My brother , all praise is due to Allah, the Milano court freed some brothers completely from all terrorism charges including Habib and Ali Zaydan and Abu Maryam. Now they are to be deported to Tunisia where the killing, rape, torture and humiliation.

Even though the European court stopped deportation to Tunisia as well as the supreme Italian court, the evil terrorist, interior minister is insisting on handing the brothers to the Tunisian government, so please try to do something for them as soon as possible, try to contact the lawyer in London or call anyone who’s able to stop their deportation to Tunisia.

As for my case, I received a letter from the Spanish Court declaring my innocence of all charges and it’s signed by the Italian minister of justice, and with all this they are insisting on keeping me in prison. I’ve been in prison for six years and two months and this is my seventh Ramadan walhamdulillaah.

I sent with this letter, Italian papers which include: A complaint I forwarded against Nuoro and Sardinia prisons, the letter I received from Spain, a copy of my medical report which they altered. I complained about them but as usual, they put my case on hold even though it’s of extreme importance… this is Italy for you.

Brother, here’s some bad news:

They took ten brothers to a new jail in Rossano including Khaled Sarai. The guards and the commander in charge at that prison assaulted an Egyptian brother called Radi al-Ayyash, they punched and hit him with sticks, left him in confinement for six days without any cloth or cover, not even a blanket or bed. They didn’t give him any medicine nor bring a doctor to see him after he was bleeding due to all the beating. On the seventh day they transferred him to Nuoro prison. The same thing happened to me last year.

When the brothers demanded their rights, the prison director threatened to beat them, humiliate them and put them in confinement. He deprived them from food and a place to relieve themselves for 3 days. Wallaahi, three days with no food.

So the brothers protested against this treatment and called it “the rebellion of excess” , they threw urine and feces all over that section of the prison, and every time it’s cleaned they do the same thing again. One of the brothers drank a litre of cleaning detergent; another brother drank laundry soap and another swallowed 25 tablets of medicine all at once, protesting against this ill, racist and cruel treatment by the director and commander. Currently, three of the brothers are in solitary confinement for 3 months only because they asked for their rights.

Brother, please deliver these events to the Muslims around the world.

Let the Muslims hear our cry coming deep from the heart.

O Ummah of Islaam, we are facing in Italy all kinds of oppression, torture and racism.

Where are the Muslims? Where are the free men? Where are the honourable men?

There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and Muhammad is his messenger, peace and blessings be upon him.

Wa kull ‘aam wa antum bikhayr in this Blessed Month of Ramadan.

Was-salaamu ‘alaykum warahamatullaahi wabarakaatuhu,

Your brother Rabeh Osman, The Egyptian (from the Madrid case) freed by Spain and convicted by Italy

Fulan al-Maghribi: August 3, 2010

10 Aug

3rd August 2010

All Praise is due to Allah and peace and blessing be upon His final Messenger, as to what follows,
My brother and the reader of this letter, as-Salaamu ‘alaykum warahamatullaahi wabarakaatuhu, may Allah bless you.

My brother, I couldn’t find a brother here in Macomar prison able to write good English so I had to write to you Arabic, also I want to write a lot to you in this letter after the harsh treatment that I received.

As you know after all the different trials and plots we were sentenced from 8 to 5 years, all Praise is due to Allah for every state.

The only news in our case is that the 6th person convicted surrendered to the Italian authorities after coming back from Libya hoping he will be freed from the charges due to the fact that he’s married to an Italian women and they have one daughter. He stated in court that “The same day the brothers were arrested in Italy, three other brothers were arrested in Tunisia for the same charges and he was one of them.”

This brother narrated the disturbing events and the physical torture he went through inside the dungeons of the Tunisian Intelligence.

He told the police, journalists and relatives attending his court hearing that he was raped four times, they made him drink oil, wanted to cut his male parts, hanged him for 12 hours and beat him. The effects of beating are still on his body till this day. They wanted him to confess to trumped-up charges regarding his brothers in Italy but he refused.

He confirmed to the Italian court that there’s constant collaboration between the Tunisian and Italian Intelligence agencies, he found in Tunisian complete reports for this case. He was tortured for 23 days in Tunisia then he was presented to the court on a wheel chair. All Praise is due to Allah the judge freed him of all charges after seeing the state he was in and Allah knows best.

One that day, he told everything that happened to him to the Italian court, his poor wife had a miscarriage in the court room, and we were all affected by what we heard, so a brother threw his shoe at the officer sitting in front of the cage we were in held in, but sadly he didn’t get him, he got a worker from the prison instead. There was chaos in the court room, one brother was screaming: criminals, criminals so they took us out of the room barefoot and handcuffed. On the same day, the judge sentenced the first brother for 9 years, sentenced another for 8 years, the brother tortured in Tunisia and the rest of the brothers for 5 years.

The public prosecutor presented a written testimony from a Tunisian man inside the Italian army whom we all know, and the brother tortured in Tunisia told us that he saw him in the Interior Ministry in Tunisia at the time of his arrest.

He states in his testimony that we have the Islamic Jihadi and extremist ideology and that we used distribute jihadi and suicide bombings videos and everything else related to jihad. Hasbiyallaah wa ni’mal wakeel. When the lawyers asked for him to come to court the public prosecutor claimed that he was unable to get through to him so the judge accepted his written testimony and made it part of the charges.

They lawyers spoke for 4 hours in our defence and can you believe that the judge was asleep during that time, qaddarallaah wa mashaa’a fa’al. Towards the end of that day, the judge set the day 17th of June for our sentencing.

That cursed judge sentenced us with harsh prison terms on the 17th of June 2010. I ask Allah the All-Mighty the Most Strong to punish them severely and He is capable of all things. That’s all I can remember and was able to write forgive me my brother for prolonging this letter.

Last time you asked about my family, they are well alhamdulillaah but as you may know, they took away my wife and daughters’ residency so their stay in this country is illegal, Allah is the Protector. Unfortunately being in Macomer prison, I am unable to meet with them because it’s very difficult to travel to this island due to costs and other stuff. I might stay here for at least a year alhamdulillah ‘ala kulli hal. I call them 4 times a month and once a month I call my mother and family in Tunisia.

My brother, I don’t mind if you wish to publish this story but without the mentioning of my names, you may say it’s a media release or anything else you see fit.

The last thing for me to tell you is that the appeal for our case will be soon and some things might change, Allah knows best, especially after other trials in the city of Milano were many brothers were freed from terrorism related charges including the three brothers who were brought from Britain, Habib Qanawat, Ali Shalbadi, and Muhammad Khmayri, All Praise is due to Allah the Lord of the worlds, and other are free now.
In any case, nothing will happen except what Allah has decreed for us.

Lastly I ask Allah the Most High, the All-Powerful to allow you, your family and the rest of the muslims to witness the month of Ramadan and to grant you tawfeeq in your fasting and night prayers, Allaahumma Ameen.

A poor slave of Allah wrote this letter on Tuesday 8th of Sha’ban 1431.
Remember us in your supplications.

Nassim Saadi: May 29, 2010

29 May

Salam alaykum,

I hope inshallah this letter will find you in the good of health and high imaan, I’m your brother in Islam from Tunisia. I am 35 years old and married to an Italian wife and I have one child who is 11 years old.

I was arrested in 2002 in Milan, accused of internatonal terrorism. I was the first muslim arrested for terrorism offences in Italy since the 11th September 2001. I was held in prison for 3 years, and in this period I had 40 hearings in the law courts. Presented as witnesses were the FBI, Scotland Yars and the Italian Secret Service. I was released from prison in 2005.

Whilst I was released, I found out my brother had died in Iraq. It was thought that he was killed in the attack against the United Nations there, and when the police took my DNA to match against that person, the British Police could not match the DNA. I believe my brother was killed in Iraq, but I do not think that it was in this attack against the UN.

I was then taken by the Italian Police in 2006 to an immigration centre,where they intended to extradite me to Tunisia. Tunisia had given me a 20 year sentence in my absence without any proof or open trial, based on nothing. In that period, I wanted to claim political asylum in Italy but the Italian authorities instead wanted to send me to torture, knowing what the Tunisian government will do to Islamic prisoners. In that period, I wrote a letter to Strasbourgs law court, and they gave a judgement that I can stay in Italy. At the same time, the Italians charged me again with terrorism offences and sentenced me for 8 years and 10 months. They invented these charges, created a false impression and false personality about me just so that I would look like a terrorist to the Strasbourg courts. Alhumduillah though, the Strasbourg court gave me a judgement in my favour, saying that it is forbidden to deport me to torture. They ordered the Italians to keep me in Italy and that if they deported or extradited me to Tunisia it would count as a cruel act and to do so would be forbidden.

Sadly the Italians refuse to accept the verdict of the European Court, and they love to punish muslims in this country and always try to send them to the arab countries so they can be tortured.

This is my sad life in this country.

Before I end this letter, I will tell you about another brother, Mohammed Mannai. He was sentenced in Tunisia for 120 years!! Incredible condemnation, I wish him all the best for the future.

Your brother in Islam, Abu Annis ( Nassim Saadi )