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Author Archive for dazeylin
27
Jan
08
Mustapha Labsi
- Name: Mustapha Labsi
- Nationality: Algerian
- Residence: Britain
- Marital Status: Married
- Date of Arrest: 01/20/2003
- Location of Arrest: London, UK
A Cry from the Forgotten Detainees of Conscience
The Bratislava Regional Court is holding a hearing today, Wednesday 28 November 2007, on a request to extradite Mustapha Labsi to Algeria.
Based on its research on the human rights situation in Algeria, Amnesty International considers that, if extradited to Algeria, Mustapha Labsi would be at risk of being detained incommunicado in a secret location, and as such being subjected to torture or other ill-treatment. He would also face the risk of an unfair trial. Therefore, his extradition to Algeria would violate both Slovakian law and Slovakia’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
26
Jan
08
uzair paracha
Uzair Paracha
- Name: Uzair Paracha
- Nationality: Pakistan
- Residence: USA/Pakistan
- Marital Status: Single
- Date of Arrest: 2-20-2001
- Place of Arrest: New York
- Currently Held: Colorado
Background
Uzair Paracha, born in 1980, is the eldest son of Saifullah and Farhat Paracha.
The son of a successful businessman and prominent social activist, he spent his formative years in America, but returned with his family to settle in Pakistan in the mid-’80’s.
Following his graduation from Karachi’s Institute of Business Administration, with a major in Marketing, he joined his father in the family business. Uzair travelled to the US in February 2003, as part of one business venture they embarked upon, in order to market quality apartments in Karachi to the Pakistani community in America. He was based in New York City, where he stayed with extended family.
24
Jan
08
Saifullah Paracha
Saifullah Paracha
Urgent Health Issues!
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Nationality: Pakistan
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Residence: Pakistan – USA
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Family: Married 4 children*
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Date of arrest: 2003
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Location of arrest: Pakistan
- Currently Held: Guantanamo Bay – Camp 5
Saifullah Paracha’s Background
Saifullah Paracha was born in Pakistan, in 1947. He is married to Farhat (Pakistani) and they have four children – Uzair (28), Muneeza, (25), Mustafa, (18) and Zahra, (15).
At the age of 26, Saifullah came to the US to study, where he later went on to work and to establish several businesses. He spent the next decade or so in America, with his family, law-abiding and tax-paying residents, and eventually Green Card holders. They finally decided to settle in Pakistan in the mid-80’s, where he started a business, exporting clothes to the US, as well as a television production company. The family have visited the US frequently since, where Mr. Paracha’s business partner, Charles Antenby, is based.
20
Jan
08
Sabir Lahmar
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Name: Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar ISN10002
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Nationality: Algerian
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Residence: Bosnia
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Date of Arrest: January 18, 2002
Background:
Sabir Lahmar is an Algerian national resident in Bosnia.
Like other Algerians, Sabir left Algeria in the late eighties and early nineties to make pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. The Algerians went their individual ways before fate reunited them in post-war Bosnia.
18
Jan
08
Aafia Siddiqui
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Name: Aaifa Siddiqui
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Nationality: Pakistani
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Resident: USA/Pakistan
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Married, three children, also missing
UPDATE: 2006 Report shows US admits having Aafia.[download]
(Cageprisoners) Aafia Siddiqui was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on March 2, 1972. She was one of three children of Mohammad Siddiqui, a doctor trained in England, and Ismet. She is a mother of three.
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Name: Abdel Hamid Ibn Abdussalem Ibn Miftah Al-Ghizzawi aka Al-Ghazzawi (URGENT ACTION)
- Nationality: Libyan
- Residence: Afghanistan
- Married, one young daughter
- Arrested December 2001 (Sold to US Troops) in Afghanistan
- Currently Held: Guantanamo Bay
18
Jan
08
Majid Khan – Ghost Prisoner
- Majid Khan
- Ghost Prisoner (ISN) 10020
- Nationality Pakistani
- Residence USA
- Married
Majid Khan is a Pakistan-born man and legal resident of the United States who immigrated to the US in 1996. On a trip to Pakistan to visit his wife, Khan was abducted by Pakistani officials and transferred to one of the CIA’s secret prisons. He is represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights and is the only so-called “high value” detainee to have legal representation.
17
Jan
08
Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr Child Soldier
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Omar Khadr |
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Canadian |
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Afghanistan |
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Single |
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Date of Arrest: |
27/07/2002 |
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Location of Arrest: |
Afghanistan |
Please read “A Legal Debate in Guantanamo on Boy Fighters” (link below) so that you can get some background on Omar.
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Politics interfering with justice at Gitmo, colonel says (posted today)
- Canada’s Child Soldier Problem (NEW!) by Andy Worthington
The below is from Cageprisoners:
Letters:
Letter from Omar to his brother, Abdul-Rahman, 11-10-04
Letter from Omar to his mother, 18-06-04
Letter from Omar to his mother, 09-10-04
Omar Khadr was born in 1986He is the son of Ahmad Said Khadr, Egyptian, who came to Canada from his native Egypt in 1977, and Maha, a Palestinian-Canadian.
He has three brothers, Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman (21), Abdul-Rahim (14), and two sisters, Zaynab (23) and one who is the younger than him.
Whilst born and raised in Canada, the family moved to Afghanistan in the 1990’s, engaging in refugee work and establishing schools, to rebuild the country under the rule of the Taliban.
