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Bush's dishonest government.
war
on women
Imagine
Interrogators
The smokefree
legislation in UK
The
survival of our democracy
dying in detention or prison
We are all connected to acts of torture
Democrat
in Name Only
We Did It!
Racial violence
erupts in Sydney
ρατσιστικη οργη στο Συδνευ
The Mess USA Made in Iraq
The War on Al Jazeera.
The Iraq illusion -
by Paul Rogers
Earth Democracy
του κλωτσου και του μπατσου
Expired food
I
found the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction!
Europe's anti-terror secrets - by Mats Engström
Submission of HREOC to
Senate Inquiry
Anti-Terrorism
Bill
Trampling human rights
Senator Kerry Nettle
Racial
Profiling
Everyday Low
Wages
the gap between the rich and poor has continue to grow
Senator Linda Kirk
anti-poverty plan
Senator Despoja
Tell the Senate your
concerns
WHY IS FRANCE BURNING?
We are hipoctrites
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Imagine that one minute you are eating dinner with your family and the next
you are hooded, handcuffed, and dragged away. Your family is not told where you
were taken. After your initial interrogation, you are taken to a plane: it takes
off, but no one tells you where it’s going and when it lands you don’t even know
what country you’re in.
You are put in a cell, completely isolated, with no windows and only a bucket
for a toilet. Artificial lights are on all the time and a constant low-level hum
comes out of the loudspeakers. You cannot sleep and feel very anxious. The
guards, dressed completely in black, communicate only with hand gestures.
Interrogators insult you about the things most sacred to you and make you stand
motionless for long periods of time. You feel like you are going mad and just
want this to stop. And to make matters worse, you still haven’t been told why
you are there, nor are you allowed to speak to a lawyer or your family. No one
knows where you are.
You may have to imagine such a situation, but someone like Muhammad al-Assad has
actually lived through similar experiences.
Enter into Muhammad al-Assad’s world. He was “disappeared” for almost 16 months
and has recently reappeared in Yemen.
In the US administration’s “war on terror”, Muhammad al-Assad is just one of the
countless many who have been held secretly, in incommunicado detention and
subjected to torture or ill-treatment at the hands of US officials.
Help Muhammad al-Assad by writing to US and Yemeni authorities. Take action to
ensure that he is released unless he is to be charged with an internationally
recognizable criminal offence. If he is charged, then he must be brought to
trial in a reasonable time and in full accordance with international standards,
without recourse to the death penalty.
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