Enemies of the state? Police fail even to question men held as a terror threat.
FPF - 16 Dec. 2005 - Why are warcriminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi (It) or Balkenende in The Netherlands still walking free? There's an abundance of proof concerning their inhumanity and criminality: we should one way or the other stop those barbarians which are wrecking so many lives. Locking up people and throw away the keys without even questioning them? The creatures who do this are the real criminals.
All of the people of whatever nationality or level which are actively involved in the present genocide, the American made "War of Terror' - from soldiers to secret services, including the PNAC's flying Gestapo - must absolutely be stopped and jailed.
Those people - of which some were 'elected' - are for the most even paid by us! They are paid to be our civil servants but instead have turned criminal. Our personel works against us; steals and kills. They must as soon as is possible be fired, arrested end taken to a real court without the usually corrupt judges to be tried. They are the real enemies of our lives and states.
Enemies of the state? Police fail even to question men held as a terror threat
Suspected of plotting terror, a group of men have been held for four years but never charged. Now, in their first testimonies, they reveal the authorities have not even questioned them since their arrests.
By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
15 December 2005 - Four men deprived of their liberty for four years on suspicion of being international terrorists disclose today that they have not once been questioned by police or security services since being arrested.
The four, who were among 16 suspects detained without trial under post-11 September terror legislation, later overturned by the law lords, give harrowing accounts of the treatment they have suffered. All are now under virtual house arrest. Although three face deportation, The Independent has learnt that there is no prospect of the men ever being questioned over the offences they are alleged to have committed.
In interviews with Amnesty International, the four - three Algerians and a Palestinian - say their detentions have harmed their physical and mental health. They also complain that their treatment has had a devastating impact on their wives and families.
The men were interned in Belmarsh jail in south-east London - which has been called Britain's Guantanamo Bay - and other high security prisons in conditions consistently condemned by human rights organisations. Their detentions were ruled illegal by the law lords a year ago and they have since been released on control orders with tough restrictions on leaving home.
Three were re-arrested in August under immigration powers pending deportation and released by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act (Siac) in October on very strict bail conditions amounting to house arrest. One of them told Amnesty: "We've been moving from one nightmare to another."
A PROFOUND SENSE OF INJUSTICE
Kate Allen, the director of Amnesty International, met the Palestinian Mahmoud Abu Rideh and an Algerian man known as "H" at their homes in the past month and spent about an hour with each of them, together with their wives. She said: "Both men expressed a profound sense of injustice that their liberty had been taken from them without their ever being charged, tried or shown any evidence against them. Both expressed amazement that this could happen in a country like the UK.
"But what struck me most was the impact that the detention and subsequent house arrest of these men has had on their partners and their families. Abu Rideh's house doesn't feel like the kind of bustling home you would expect of a family with five children. It is silent, sad and isolated. Friends and family are scared to visit - to do so they have to submit their name and photo to the Home Office, and in effect become a "known associate of a terrorist suspect".
The disclosure that the men have not been interviewed by the authorities will embarrass ministers, who have claimed that the men present such a terrorist threat that they have to be permanently monitored.
In a report today on the plight of the so-called Belmarsh detainees, Amnesty calls for charges to be brought against them or for the restrictions on their freedom to be lifted. A spokesman said: "Is this really what we call justice in this country? These men have had their liberty taken from them for four years yet they haven't even been charged and tried, let alone found guilty of anything. What's really shocking is that these men, supposedly 'suspected international terrorists', have never once been questioned since their arrest."
PROLONGED THEIR ORDEALS
The four - Abu Rideh and the Algerians, known as "A", "G" and "H" - were interviewed by Amnesty. All complained of mental health problems including depression and said that their transfer from jail to house arrest had prolonged their ordeals.
"A" said: "I am basically locked up at home for 24 hours a day ... the pressure of this situation is enormous on my family."
"G" complains: "Although I have access to my garden (albeit for a limited portion of the day) I fear that if I reply to any one of my neighbours saying 'hello' to me I will be in breach of my bail conditions. So, I don't even go out in the garden. Every night I fear that the police will come and arrest me again. I feel like I have lost all access to a normal life." Abu Rideh, who has made at least four suicide attempts, says: "I can't sleep. I spend all my time in the house. I don't go outside much; I'm just not up to it."
A Home Office spokesman said last night: "Obviously bail conditions are set by Siac that are considered necessary to address the risk of absconding and to protect national security."
The spokesman did not deny that the detainees had never been questioned by police over the past four years. He said: "We never discuss individual cases." However, one security source said: "We believe these men are dangerous, but they cannot be prosecuted. Under those circumstances there's little point interviewing them."
But Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said: "The fact that no questioning has taken place since arrest suggests that little effort has been made to explore the possibility of criminal charges. If that is the case it is completely unacceptable ... These men have been left in a legal limbo which is contrary to every tradition of justice in this country. Indefinite detention has taken an appalling toll on their mental health, just as it has with the Guantanamo Bay prisoners."
A WISH FOR FAIR TREATMENT
Amnesty is calling for immediate action: "If there is evidence against them, they should be charged with a recognisably criminal offence and tried in a British court," said Ms Allen. "Both expressed a wish for fair treatment, not special treatment - that the authorities should show them whatever evidence has condemned them to this limbo, and give them a chance to refute it in court. All they want is justice."
[andend] - The Independent - Url.: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article333258.ece
FPF-comment: It's a grave mistake to believe that 'The Independent', 'The Guardian' and 'The Observe'r are reliable papers. All three have a long record proving that they for decades have been cooperating with the different secret services in England as well as abroad. Everything from the CIA tot the Mossad. In the UK the 'establishment' censors what it wants with the 'D-Notice' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/pv2r
They'll publish some 'critical' articles as an 'alibi' but have been enforcing the policy set out by their neocon owners, and in general have been advocating the illegal wars and the criminal involvement of the European Union under Blair's mentor, the despicable Peter Mandelson. This 'Gauleiter' was put as 'Chef' of the EU, running all im- and exportbusiness of the EU! Nobody ever elected him: the infamous Banking Establishment in London appointed him as their man at the European moneymachine: the EU.
Like in The Netherlands many people in most European countries have all the reasons in the world to be very ashamed of the lying criminals which form their so called 'leadership' -and which people in the EU are forced to pay for. We keep trying to get those murdering criminals in jail.
We must stop them in their inhuman tracks, making secret deals behind our backs. We pay them! They must do as we say, not as their PNAC 'Pipers of Hameln" [http://tinyurl.com/8zwf4] which want them to rob and kill under the guise of 'bringing democracy!
They must be forced to face the consequences of their misdeeds.
EU concealed deal with US to allow 'rendition' flights
By Justin Stares in Brussels and Philip Sherwell in Washington
Quote: "The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/crdaf
RELATED REFERENCES & LINKS:
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* 'Spreading democracy' - Countries & US Death Squads - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/drnca - A 55' second sound bite concerning the US 'bringing democracy' everywhere - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v
* 'Crying Wolf' - Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7ttx8
* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org
* Al Qaeda – The Database - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqx69
* The 9/11 WTC drama was PNAC terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9np7d
It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d
* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
********************************************************************
* He who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what he believed was the Truth.
When he talks about it in the fields at home,
He is often accused of lying,
For the obdurate people will not believe
Inexperience, I believe,
Will give little credence to my song.
'Journey to the East' - Hermann Hesse
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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All of the people of whatever nationality or level which are actively involved in the present genocide, the American made "War of Terror' - from soldiers to secret services, including the PNAC's flying Gestapo - must absolutely be stopped and jailed.
Those people - of which some were 'elected' - are for the most even paid by us! They are paid to be our civil servants but instead have turned criminal. Our personel works against us; steals and kills. They must as soon as is possible be fired, arrested end taken to a real court without the usually corrupt judges to be tried. They are the real enemies of our lives and states.
Enemies of the state? Police fail even to question men held as a terror threat
Suspected of plotting terror, a group of men have been held for four years but never charged. Now, in their first testimonies, they reveal the authorities have not even questioned them since their arrests.
By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
15 December 2005 - Four men deprived of their liberty for four years on suspicion of being international terrorists disclose today that they have not once been questioned by police or security services since being arrested.
The four, who were among 16 suspects detained without trial under post-11 September terror legislation, later overturned by the law lords, give harrowing accounts of the treatment they have suffered. All are now under virtual house arrest. Although three face deportation, The Independent has learnt that there is no prospect of the men ever being questioned over the offences they are alleged to have committed.
In interviews with Amnesty International, the four - three Algerians and a Palestinian - say their detentions have harmed their physical and mental health. They also complain that their treatment has had a devastating impact on their wives and families.
The men were interned in Belmarsh jail in south-east London - which has been called Britain's Guantanamo Bay - and other high security prisons in conditions consistently condemned by human rights organisations. Their detentions were ruled illegal by the law lords a year ago and they have since been released on control orders with tough restrictions on leaving home.
Three were re-arrested in August under immigration powers pending deportation and released by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act (Siac) in October on very strict bail conditions amounting to house arrest. One of them told Amnesty: "We've been moving from one nightmare to another."
A PROFOUND SENSE OF INJUSTICE
Kate Allen, the director of Amnesty International, met the Palestinian Mahmoud Abu Rideh and an Algerian man known as "H" at their homes in the past month and spent about an hour with each of them, together with their wives. She said: "Both men expressed a profound sense of injustice that their liberty had been taken from them without their ever being charged, tried or shown any evidence against them. Both expressed amazement that this could happen in a country like the UK.
"But what struck me most was the impact that the detention and subsequent house arrest of these men has had on their partners and their families. Abu Rideh's house doesn't feel like the kind of bustling home you would expect of a family with five children. It is silent, sad and isolated. Friends and family are scared to visit - to do so they have to submit their name and photo to the Home Office, and in effect become a "known associate of a terrorist suspect".
The disclosure that the men have not been interviewed by the authorities will embarrass ministers, who have claimed that the men present such a terrorist threat that they have to be permanently monitored.
In a report today on the plight of the so-called Belmarsh detainees, Amnesty calls for charges to be brought against them or for the restrictions on their freedom to be lifted. A spokesman said: "Is this really what we call justice in this country? These men have had their liberty taken from them for four years yet they haven't even been charged and tried, let alone found guilty of anything. What's really shocking is that these men, supposedly 'suspected international terrorists', have never once been questioned since their arrest."
PROLONGED THEIR ORDEALS
The four - Abu Rideh and the Algerians, known as "A", "G" and "H" - were interviewed by Amnesty. All complained of mental health problems including depression and said that their transfer from jail to house arrest had prolonged their ordeals.
"A" said: "I am basically locked up at home for 24 hours a day ... the pressure of this situation is enormous on my family."
"G" complains: "Although I have access to my garden (albeit for a limited portion of the day) I fear that if I reply to any one of my neighbours saying 'hello' to me I will be in breach of my bail conditions. So, I don't even go out in the garden. Every night I fear that the police will come and arrest me again. I feel like I have lost all access to a normal life." Abu Rideh, who has made at least four suicide attempts, says: "I can't sleep. I spend all my time in the house. I don't go outside much; I'm just not up to it."
A Home Office spokesman said last night: "Obviously bail conditions are set by Siac that are considered necessary to address the risk of absconding and to protect national security."
The spokesman did not deny that the detainees had never been questioned by police over the past four years. He said: "We never discuss individual cases." However, one security source said: "We believe these men are dangerous, but they cannot be prosecuted. Under those circumstances there's little point interviewing them."
But Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said: "The fact that no questioning has taken place since arrest suggests that little effort has been made to explore the possibility of criminal charges. If that is the case it is completely unacceptable ... These men have been left in a legal limbo which is contrary to every tradition of justice in this country. Indefinite detention has taken an appalling toll on their mental health, just as it has with the Guantanamo Bay prisoners."
A WISH FOR FAIR TREATMENT
Amnesty is calling for immediate action: "If there is evidence against them, they should be charged with a recognisably criminal offence and tried in a British court," said Ms Allen. "Both expressed a wish for fair treatment, not special treatment - that the authorities should show them whatever evidence has condemned them to this limbo, and give them a chance to refute it in court. All they want is justice."
[andend] - The Independent - Url.: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article333258.ece
FPF-comment: It's a grave mistake to believe that 'The Independent', 'The Guardian' and 'The Observe'r are reliable papers. All three have a long record proving that they for decades have been cooperating with the different secret services in England as well as abroad. Everything from the CIA tot the Mossad. In the UK the 'establishment' censors what it wants with the 'D-Notice' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/pv2r
They'll publish some 'critical' articles as an 'alibi' but have been enforcing the policy set out by their neocon owners, and in general have been advocating the illegal wars and the criminal involvement of the European Union under Blair's mentor, the despicable Peter Mandelson. This 'Gauleiter' was put as 'Chef' of the EU, running all im- and exportbusiness of the EU! Nobody ever elected him: the infamous Banking Establishment in London appointed him as their man at the European moneymachine: the EU.
Like in The Netherlands many people in most European countries have all the reasons in the world to be very ashamed of the lying criminals which form their so called 'leadership' -and which people in the EU are forced to pay for. We keep trying to get those murdering criminals in jail.
We must stop them in their inhuman tracks, making secret deals behind our backs. We pay them! They must do as we say, not as their PNAC 'Pipers of Hameln" [http://tinyurl.com/8zwf4] which want them to rob and kill under the guise of 'bringing democracy!
They must be forced to face the consequences of their misdeeds.
EU concealed deal with US to allow 'rendition' flights
By Justin Stares in Brussels and Philip Sherwell in Washington
Quote: "The European Union secretly allowed the United States to use transit facilities on European soil to transport "criminals" in 2003, according to a previously unpublished document. The revelation contradicts repeated EU denials that it knew of "rendition" flights by the CIA." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/crdaf
RELATED REFERENCES & LINKS:
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' is the absolute biggest crime ever - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* 'Spreading democracy' - Countries & US Death Squads - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/drnca - A 55' second sound bite concerning the US 'bringing democracy' everywhere - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v
* 'Crying Wolf' - Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7ttx8
* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org
* Al Qaeda – The Database - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqx69
* The 9/11 WTC drama was PNAC terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9np7d
It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d
* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
********************************************************************
* He who travels far will often see things
Far removed from what he believed was the Truth.
When he talks about it in the fields at home,
He is often accused of lying,
For the obdurate people will not believe
Inexperience, I believe,
Will give little credence to my song.
'Journey to the East' - Hermann Hesse
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/6v8ru
Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
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