"Prisoner of Guantanamo" Ghezali to sue Rumsfeld

[Stockholm]

Mehdi Ghezali has announced through his lawyer that he intends to sue US Secretary of State for Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, for damages. The Swede spent over two years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba under suspicion of membership of the al-Qaida terror network. No concrete evidence was ever produced and he was released in July last year.

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Ghezali's story has coincidentally now been told in a new book published today called "Fången i Guantanamo" (Prisoner of Guantanamo). Although the book, written by journalist Gösta Hultén, adds little to what was known before, it gives the public a reminder of why Ghezali wishes to pursue his case.

Ghezali claims that in 2001 he had spent time in Pakistan and then Afghanistan studying Islam. When the Americans invaded Afghanistan, he was in Jalalabad and fled back to Pakistan. He was in a group of refugees which was then handed over to American forces on suspicion of belonging to al-Qaida.

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[vSmith]

1. Re : [b]"Prisoner of Guantanamo" Ghezali to sue Rumsfeld"[/b]

When the quotes provide:
Published: 17th March 2005 16:48 BST+1
"Prisoner of Guantanamo"
Mehdi "Ghezali gives numerous examples of harsh treatment and torture. These include sexual harassment at the hands of a female guard, being exposed to extreme heat and cold and long periods of sleep deprivation."

This is unacceptable. How can this new weakness arrise amongst our our current problems?

[Is It Fascism Yet]

2. and the fundies comments under the article are as hateful as can be

as if this person had not already suffered enough under American misjustice!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. there's a play

being presented at regional theaters across the US about Guantanimo. It relates the stories of prisoners who have been released. Heard about it on NPR yesterday-not much, it was in a longer story about the Borderlands Theater in AZ. But apparently the play has been mounted a couple of places.

[loftycity]

4. Stockholm

Thanks for posting the "The Local." We just moved to Sweden in January. Living in Helsingborg...partner works in town and I'm out in the country. Thanks..I needed a newspaper from here.
Now I can get all worked up about another country's politics.
Lofty