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η κράτηση 42 ημερών - `αυτό είναι πραγματικά ψυχολογικά βασανιστήρια»
Τετάρτη, 11η Ιουνίου 2008
Από Lee Glendinning | «Ένα λεπτό πηγαίνει όπως μια ώρα και μια ώρα όπως μια ημέρα μέσα σε ένα κύτταρο… Χάνετε όλη την έννοια της ημέρας ή της νύχτας. Δεν υπάρχει καμία συγκίνηση: δεν μπορείτε να φωνάξετε, δεν μπορείτε να γελάσετε… «Έξι ημέρες που γίνονται αισθητές όπως έξι έτη. Φοβάμαι να σκεφτώ τι 42 ημέρες θα αισθάνονταν όπως: 28 ημέρες είναι αρκετά σκληρές… η ιδέα 42 ημερών είναι φαινομενικές. «Το ειρωνικό πράγμα είναι, παιδόφιλοι, δολοφόνοι, ληστές τραπεζών, τους απαγωγείς και τα extortionists ισχύουν για τέσσερις ημέρες - μέγιστος χρόνος 96 ωρών. Και οι ύποπτοι τρόμου είναι ίσης αξίας με όλους εκείνους.» Το Rizwaan Sabir, 23, ένας σπουδαστής στο πανεπιστήμιο του Νόττιγχαμ, βρέθηκε τεθειμένου υπό κράτηση σε ένα διαχωρισμένο και μονωμένο φτερό φυλακών τον περασμένο μήνα, συλλήφθείτε και ισχυμένος στο πλαίσιο του νόμου τρομοκρατίας μετά από να φθάσει σε πανεπιστημιακό και να προφθάσει έναν φίλο για τον καφέ. Για έξι ημέρες, κρατήθηκε στη φυλακή χωρίς δαπάνη, υπό εικοσιτετράωρη επιτήρηση και ρωτήθηκε καθημερινά για τις απόψεις του σχετικά με Al-Qaida και την ισλαμική λογοτεχνία. Ήταν ένα θέμα κοντά στην καρδιά του. Τέσσερις μήνες νωρίτερα, Rizwaan, που έκανε τους κυρίους του στις διεθνείς σχέσεις, είχε χτυπήσει σε ένα έγγραφο Al-Qaida on-line ερευνώντας τη διατριβή του, η οποία εστίασε στη διαφορά μεταξύ των διάφορων στρατιωτικών οργανώσεων. Το έγγραφο ήταν μια επεξεργασθείσα έκδοση του εγχειριδίου κατάρτισης Al-Qaida, που μεταφορτώθηκε από έναν ιστοχώρο αμερικανικής κυβέρνησης. Μετά από να ολοκληρώσει ένα ουσιαστικό χοντρό κομμάτι της εργασίας τον Ιανουάριο, έστειλε το έγγραφο σε έναν συνάδελφο, Hisham Yezza, 30, τα οποία ελειτούργησαν στην πανεπιστημιούπολη και είχαν πρόσβαση σε έναν ελεύθερο εκτυπωτή. Στο πρωί της 14ης Μαΐου, Rizwaan δεν θα μπορούσε να έχει καμία ιδέα ότι η επόμενη εβδομάδα του θα ξοδευόταν σε ένα κύτταρο, που κατηγορείται για την επιτροπή και την προετοιμασία μιας πράξης της τρομοκρατίας, το ζήτημα εάν θα χρεωνόταν ή μην κρεμώντας στην ισορροπία. «Μετά από τον καφέ έβαλα την ουσία μου κάτω και μπήκα μέσα τα gents. Μόλις περπάτησα μέσα, υπεάρξαν τρεις αστυνομικοί πίσω από με που λέω `δεν κινούνται! Μην κινηθείτε! Το cWho είναι εσείς;» Και ήμουν όπως, `που είμαι σπουδαστής. Το cWho είναι εσείς;» «Είπαν: ‘Well, we are police officers looking for someone who matches your description.”’ Shortly afterwards, they arrested him under section 41 of the Terrorism Act for the alleged commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism; Hisham Yezza had been arrested 10 minutes beforehand. When Rizwaan reached the police station, the second floor had been entirely sealed off. It was, he said, like some form of solitary confinement. “The restricted access made me feel like a real criminal. It felt like I was in the seventies - the lights were off and there was one table; all the cells were empty. I thought, ‘What the hell is going on here?’” For the first 48 hours, he was told nothing, but was placed under 24-hour surveillance. ”They watched everything you did and wrote it down. I would read a book and they would write down what I was reading. They would follow me when I had a shower and stand right there. You couldn’t take one step out of the cell without someone following you. They would stop and do random searches of the cell. It was so humiliating “Day six was the hardest. Knowing your life depends on a decision that someone else takes … when you have done something with the most clean-hearted intention. It really is psychological torture.” Officers from the West Midlands counter-terrorism branch told him they were searching his car, computer and the family home, making him feel panicked about his family’s reaction. His mother, father, grandmother and two siblings were at home in the suburbs of Nottingham. His colleagues on campus were also questioned in relation to the investigation, with the focus on whether he had a girlfriend, whether he drank alcohol and whether he had always worn a beard. “They were quizzed by police for five hours … they said to my personal tutor that if this had been a young, blond, Swedish PhD student, then this would never have happened. The investigating officers were making these statements when I was detention.” At one point, officers began asking him about tents they had found in his car, which he explained belonged to friends who had used them while taking part in a hunger strike. ”They found the tents and were trying to create an adverse influence. ‘Have you been camping?’ they asked ‘Are you planning to go camping? Have you been paintballing? Are you planning to go paintballing?”’ On the sixth day, without realising his freedom was imminent, he was told by a female police officer that the document he had looked at was deemed illegitimate for research purposes by the university, and if he ever looked at it again he could face further detention. He believed he was about to be charged. He said: “It was breaking … absolutely terrifying, I was sitting there thinking, ‘God, am I ever going to get out of here?’” When told he was to be released without charge, he walked into the room to speak with his solicitor. “I was shaking so violently I fell to the floor. I went back to the room and just cried and cried … Somehow, I had managed to get my emotions back.” Returning home to his family was traumatic in its own way: the house, he said, no longer felt like the home he knew. It had been searched, his belongings had been taken, his room felt like it had been rummaged through, and his home felt like it had been broken into. He still feels a sense of dread when he sees police or hears a siren. He thinks about the possibility he could have been charged, that he could be waiting right now on remand for a court date. He finds the idea of returning to study a difficult one - although it is what he wants - and is seeking counselling for an experience he says has scarred him deeply. Rizwaan’s colleague, Hisham Yezza, was also released without charge after six days, but he is now being held in a detention centre and contesting moves to deport him to Algeria. Concerned about what he calls the climate of fear the government has created in Britain, which he says has in turn prompted a society of suspicion, Rizwaan feels the UK is becoming a place that does not allow a natural interest and involvement in politicisation. “Police are paranoid that every Muslim who is young and has a beard and is slightly involved in politics is a national security threat,” he says. “I was a regular student who was researching a phenomenon we encounter in today’s society.” About this articleThis article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Wednesday June 11 2008. It was last updated at 01:11 on June 11 2008. See More:UK NewsHave Your Say: 42-day detention - ‘It really is psychological torture’ Please note, only selected comments will be published. Or discuss this report in our new forums This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 11:35 am and is filed under War & Terrorism News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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Με τους βουλευτές που ψηφίζουν σήμερα για έναν νέο, το όριο κράτησης 42 ημερών για τους υπόπτους τρόμου, Lee Glendinning μίλησε σε έναν χρονών σπουδαστή 23 για αυτό που πρόκειται όπως να τεθεί υπό κράτηση στο πλαίσιο της υπάρχουσας νομοθεσίας τρομοκρατίας.
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