SECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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Illegal detentions in the name of security. Spring Campaign Amnesty International Norway
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- This is Aisha. In July 2005 her father Masood Janjua disapeared He was arrested during a business trip - "Disappeared" Janjua was seen by another secret prisoner in 2007. On the poster it says: "Please - find my loving father,"
- Janjuas wife, Amina is desperately trying to find her husband. She has formed a separate NGO (Non-governmental organisation) for relatives of "disappeared people”, with the help of Amnesty. Supreme Court began to investigate cases of "disappeared people" in 2007, but this was stopped by Musharaf. In November 2009 the Supreme Court resumed the work. You can read more Masood Janjua here: http://www.amnesty.no/web.nsf/ac1a1a01ea7194a3c1256a07004fad10/109c409a5ee5b3d2c12574ad003fb671?OpenDocument
- Masood Janjuas history is unfortunately not unique. Around the globe is people imprisoned without charge or trial, because the government defines them as a security risk. This is violation of human rights. Some are officially detained, either without charge or under special anti-terror criminal law provision, others simply "disappeared". These people are in a particular high risk of being tortured or abused, in some cases even murdered. Many are imprisoned after being convicted in unfair trials. Asylum seekers, suspected of terror, risk being returned to torture.
- Another example is Rasul Kudaev. He went from being tortured at Guantanamo to being tortured in Russia. At Guantánamo from 2002 to 2004. Released and sent home to Caucasus. Arrested after a terror-attack, done by unknown perpetrators. Tortured to make confession. When reporting torture, he lost his lawyer. His mother harassed and tortured brother. Very poor health. The trial is still in progress. Up to the present, no investigation of torture. You can read more here: http://www.amnesty.no/web.nsf/pages/2C5155FC3795853DC125739B0036B3B5
- There is nothing new to the fact that the human rights violations are justified as anti-terror actions. It has happened in Turkey, Egypt, Colombia, Spain, Northern Ireland and Israel, etc. Terror rhetoric since 9 / 11 has: increased in volume, especially in western countries, created a new acceptance in the public (the law compromised and security prioritised), undermined international mechanisms to defend fair trial, given authoritarian regimes, a new argument to justify that kind of human rights violation, Opened up for anti-terror cooperation between the "democratic" and "authoritarian" countries.
- Still an important topic, but not prioritised. 196 detained, at this moment a negative direction. Amnesty demands release or fair civil trial. European countries (e.g. Norway) must help by accepting released prisoners that can not return home. Several hundred prisoners are being held in Bagram and other American prison camps in Afghanistan and Iraq without charge or sentence. Obama's actions have so far been lukewarm.