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Vrijdag, 30 Mei, 2008

Door Robert Verkaik | Een Britse ingezetene die de doodssanctie in de Baai onder ogen ziet van Guantanamo heeft een definitief wanhopig pleidooi aan Gordon Brown gemaakt om zijn beproeving van zes jaar te beëindigen en hem huis vandaag te brengen.

In een brief die aan het Verslaan van Straat wordt geleverd, nodigt Binyam Mohamed, de laatste medebewoner van Guantanamo met het automatische recht op Britse residentie, de Eerste Minister uit om zijn invloed met President George Bush te gebruiken om een Amerikaans militair „kangoeroehof“ tegen te houden sturend hem naar zijn dood.

M. Mohamed, 29, van Kensington, West-Londen, dat om door de Amerikanen met op terrorismebetrekking hebbende inbreuken in de volgende dagen wordt verondersteld worden belast, eist hij aan horrific misbruik tijdens meer dan zes jaar in detentie zonder proef heeft geleden.

Hij ontkent om het even welke betrokkenheid met terrorisme en zegt om het even welk bewijsmateriaal tegen hem door marteling is gehaald terwijl hij door Amerikaanse ondervragers in een Marokkaanse gevangenis werd gevraagd.

In zijn brief, vertelt M. Mohamed M. Brown: „Ik ben gehouden zonder proef door de V.S. zes jaar, één maand en 12 dagen. Dat is 2.234 dagen (zeer lange dagen en vaak langere nachten). Van dit, waren ongeveer 550 dagen in een martelingskamer in Marokko en ongeveer 150 in de Donkere Gevangenis `' in Kaboel. Nog er is geen eind in gezicht, geen perspectief op een eerlijke proef.“

Hij beschuldigt Groot-Brittannië van het voorzien van de Amerikanen van persoonlijke informatie die tegen hem werd gebruikt toen hij in Marokko werd gevraagd en waar hij eist gebruikten zijn ondervragers een scheermes om zijn genitaliën herhaaldelijk te snijden. M. Mohamed beweert ook dat de Britse Overheid weigert om essentieel bewijsmateriaal vrij te geven dat zou blijken hij werd gemarteld.

Vorig jaar, waren drie van de resterende vijf Britse ingezetenen die in de Baai van Guantanamo plaatshebben gevlogen huis nadat de vertegenwoordiging door Londen werd gemaakt. Een vierde verkoos om zijn overdracht aan Saudi-Arabië te bespreken.

Maar de V.S. hebben om het verzoek van Groot-Brittannië geweigerd na te leven om M. Mohamed te bevrijden. In zijn brief, pleit hij: „Omdat ik een Londoner ben, openbaar verklaart uw Overheid dat u mijn recht op naar huis terug:keren daar zo spoedig mogelijk steunt. Ik ben dankbaar voor dat. Ik bekeek altijd Groot-Brittannië als het land dat voor rechten van de mens meer dan een ander opkwam. That was why I came to Britain as a refugee.”

But he adds: “Before the intervention of your Government to help me, I was more resigned to my fate. To be held forever without a fair trial. When your Government intervened, I had hope. But it has been a cruel hope. Nine months later, I am still here, no closer to home, still in this terrible prison. When I learned that my Moroccan torturers were using information supplied by British intelligence, I felt deeply betrayed. When I learned that your Government’s lawyers [The Treasury Solicitors] had told my lawyers they had no duty to help prove my innocence, or even that I had been tortured, I felt betrayed again.”

Born in Ethiopia in 1978, Mr Mohamed came to Britain as an asylum-seeker in 1994 when he was 16. Although the claim was never finally determined, he was given leave to remain in Britain, where he stayed for the next seven years. But, after working as a caretaker, he developed a drug habit and, according to his legal team, went travelling to Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001 in a bid to resolve his personal issues. He was picked up in Pakistan in April 2002 as he attempted to return to Britain. His lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, director of the human rights group Reprieve, said the UK Government has admitted he was questioned by British intelligence for three hours in Karachi in 2002.

According to Mr Mohamed’s evidence, the security service officer indicated to him then that he was to be taken to an Arab country – something his lawyers say shows British knowledge of the plan to render him to Morocco. They also believe that flight records relating to the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia could establish the route of his rendition flight.

Should Mr Mohamed be sent to trial at the Military Commission, the case will further strain relations between Britain and America. The UK is opposed to capital punishment and has been increasingly critical of the treatment of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay.

Both Tony Blair and Mr Brown have called for the closure of the prison camp at the US naval base in Cuba which still holds nearly 300 inmates, many of whom have been unlawfully detained for more than five years.

The former attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, also expressed concerns about the legally flawed system of the military tribunals, set up to try non-US citizens and which one law lord likened to “kangaroo courts”. Any convictions supported by findings from the military commissions are bound to provoke an international outcry. Human rights lawyers regard the tribunals as an affront to natural justice because they do not comply with the rules to ensure a defendant receives a fair trial.

Mr Mohamed’s own account of the abuse he claims to have suffered includes a graphic account of being tortured in Morocco: “They cut all over my body, including my private parts, saying it was better just to cut it off as I would only breed terrorists. This went on for weeks every day. I felt like I was being stung by a million bees at once. The floor was full of blood … All this time they kept reading out their [story] to me and saying if you say this story as we read it, you will just go to court and all this torture will stop. I could not take any more of this torture and, after months of torture, I repeated what was read out to me. That lessened some of the torture but it was not over.”

Recent medical reports indicate Mr Mohamed may have reached the end of his psychological tether. In his letter to Mr Brown, Mr Mohamed writes: “It is long past time to end this matter. I have been next to committing suicide this past while. That would be one way to end it, I suppose.”

The men who have been released

Ruhal Ahmed

One of the so-called ‘Tipton Three’ detained in 2002 for over two years by the US, in Afghanistan and Camp Delta. Released March 2004

Asif Iqbal

Born in West Bromwich and left school at 16 to work in a local factory. Released March 2004

Shafiq Rasul

Born in Dudley, West Midlands, he travelled to Pakistan in October 2001. Family lost contact in December 2001. Released March 2004.

Feroz Abbasi

Born in Entebbe, Uganda. Released on 25 January 2005.

Tarek Dergoul

Former care worker in east London. Told family he was flying to Pakistan in 2001 to learn Arabic. Released March 2004.

Jamal Udeen

Web designer from Manchester. Believed to have been captured while a Taliban prisoner in Kandahar Jail. Released in March 2004.

Moazzam Begg

Ran a bookshop in Sparkhill, Birmingham. Released January 2005.

Abdenour Sameur

Algerian deserter who came to Britain in 1999. Granted refugee status in UK in 2000. Released December 2007.

Martin Mubanga

Joint citizen of both the UK and Zambia. Released January 2005.

Richard Belmar

Accused of association with the Taliban and al-Qa’ida. Released January 2005.

Bisher al-Rawi

Iraqi citizen, who became resident in the UK in the 1980s. Released April 2007.

Jamil el-Banna

Jordanian with refugee status in the UK. Rel-eased December 2007.

Omar Deghayes

Libyan granted refugee status by the UK in the 1980s. Released December 2007.

Shaker Abdur-Raheem Aamer

Originally from Saudi Arabia, living in UK since 1996. Release being negotiated by Saudi Arabia.

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