Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Inmate sues to stay in Gitmo

This story from RDW

Yes you read that right. Ahmed Belbacha is suing to stay at Guantanamo instead being shipped somewhere were he would be tortured and killed.Guantanamo cell is better than freedom, says inmate fighting against releaseAn inmate of Guantanamo Bay who spends 22 hours each day in an isolation cell is fighting for the right to stay in the notorious internment camp.Ahmed Belbacha fears that he will be tortured or killed if the United States goes ahead with plans to return him to his native Algeria.The Times has learnt that Mr Belbacha, who lived in Britain for three years, has filed an emergency motion at the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC asking for his transfer out of Guantanamo to be halted. He was cleared for release from Camp Delta in February and his lawyers believe that his return to Algerian custody is imminent.Mr Belbacha says that if he returns to Algeria, he faces the threat of torture by security services and murder by Islamist terrorists.The rest.

1 comments:

Realism said...

"Guantanamo cell is better than freedom, says inmate fighting against release"

Do you really think that's accurate? Wouldn't a truthful sentence be: "Imprisionment in Guantanamo is better than being tortured and killed"?

Don't you have anything to say about a person who has been imprisioned by the government for 4 years without being charged with a crime?