Terry Waite, Gareth Pierce et al Condemns UK Human Rights

[Frazzel]

Former Beirut hostage Terry Waite has condemned the way that Brtain has 'slavishly' copied the US in its path away from universal human rights. Waite campaigned for the release of Moazzam Begg from Guantanamo and recalled meeting the grandaughter of President Franklin Roosevelt in washington..
'Anna Roosevelt recalled how her grandmother Eleanor had brought people
from different countries together in this city to draw up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and how far we have now drifted from that. '
'Those of us who value the tradition of justice look back at the Magna Carta and are dismayed at what is happening' said Terry Waite.
Waite was speaking at the launch of the [u]exhibition Captivated [/u]- The Art of the Interned at the Together Gallery London EC1 which shows work of about 40 people interned without trial in Britain since 2001.among exhibits is a poem called 'the cry of the caged bird' by babar ahmed who was extradited without the Us govt required to establish a prima facie case.
Detainee 'G' like all other detainees has not been told what he is supposed to have done nor have his lawyers. All any of them want is to be given the chance to answer any charges in a proper and fair court trial.
lawyer Gareth Pierce related that a palestininan man Mahmoud Abu Rideh has been on hunger strike for 31 days calling for his control order to be lifted. abu Rideh is attempting to release his family from the confines or the control order. 'he and his family ... not allowed visitors to his home or outside his home for meetings. his wife and children have been under the control order too.' said ms Pierce.
ceri bullivant was under contol order for two years until it was lifted by a high court that ruled it was unlaful.
juror lawrence cockcroft who was part of a jury that cleared 8 men of involvement with the 'ricin' plot - where no ricin was found, revealed that he now visits one of the men cleared in prison.
Mustafa Taleb has been served with a deportation notice to algeria where he will face torture and probably death.
So much of the damage done to this countryover recent years has been based on false intelligence. We need a written constitution with accompanying bill of rights as at least a step in the right direction.
t(thanks to the morning star article 42 days too many june 25/0

[ianrcrane]

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