Nazias
05-02-07, 03:29 PM
Urgent - Algerian Deportees Need Your Help
A number of Algerians deported to Algeria from the UK recently are still in the hands of Algeria's DRS. The situation is becoming increasingly worrying.
Detainee "K" is approaching his 12th day in detention. Please call the Algerian Embassy and the Foreign Office to find out what's going on and to press for the men to be released.
Algerian Embassy: 020 7221 7800
Foreign Office: 020 7008 1500
The Foreign Office has so far responded to phone calls by saying that this is an Algerian affair and is none of its business. But it is Britain's business - the men were deported on the strength of a Memorandum of Understanding between Britain and Algeria that was supposed to guarantee that their human rights would be respected.
The men are said to have left Britain voluntarily. But they only agreed to go because years of detention and Kafkaesque legal manoeuvres had brought them to the limit of their emotional and psychological endurance. They chose to risk torture, jail or execution in Algeria rather than remain trapped in hopelessness in Britain. There's nothing voluntary about a choice like that.
Source: SACC
www.forthesakeofallah.blogspot.com
"They stole 14 months of my life. They were interrogating me everyday and in the first three or four days giving just a little food, and giving punishment" 15-year old Afghan, one of three children recently released from Guantanamo
A number of Algerians deported to Algeria from the UK recently are still in the hands of Algeria's DRS. The situation is becoming increasingly worrying.
Detainee "K" is approaching his 12th day in detention. Please call the Algerian Embassy and the Foreign Office to find out what's going on and to press for the men to be released.
Algerian Embassy: 020 7221 7800
Foreign Office: 020 7008 1500
The Foreign Office has so far responded to phone calls by saying that this is an Algerian affair and is none of its business. But it is Britain's business - the men were deported on the strength of a Memorandum of Understanding between Britain and Algeria that was supposed to guarantee that their human rights would be respected.
The men are said to have left Britain voluntarily. But they only agreed to go because years of detention and Kafkaesque legal manoeuvres had brought them to the limit of their emotional and psychological endurance. They chose to risk torture, jail or execution in Algeria rather than remain trapped in hopelessness in Britain. There's nothing voluntary about a choice like that.
Source: SACC
www.forthesakeofallah.blogspot.com
"They stole 14 months of my life. They were interrogating me everyday and in the first three or four days giving just a little food, and giving punishment" 15-year old Afghan, one of three children recently released from Guantanamo