MISSING TUNISIAN DISAPPEARED IN 2002 DISCOVERED IN BAGRAM PRISON IN AFGHANISTAN
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE NETWORK AND STANFORD LAW FILE HABEAS PETITION ON BEHALF OF
REDHA AL-NAJAR a.k.a "Redha the Tunisian"
December 8, 2008, New York, NY- In May, 2002, Mr. Redha Al-Najar, a Tunisian
citizen residing in Pakistan, was taken in his Karachi home in front of his wife
and young two-year-old son.
To date, both Pakistani and and U.S. Officials have denied knowledge of
his disappearance and subsequent whereabouts. Today, in Federal Court in Washington DC, seven years after his disappearance, the International Justice Network (IJNetwork), together with Mr. Al-Najar's brother, Houcine Al-Najar and Stanford Law School filed habeas corpus petition Al-Najar v. Bush on behalf of Mr. Redha Al-Najar.
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 Jawed "JoJo" Ahmad was released on September 21, 2008 after almost a year of being held in U.S. custody. JoJo suffered broken ribs and other abuse, but like so many victims of the U.S.'s illegal and bizarre detention policies, he was never charged or given a chance to prove his innocence.
The International Justice Network, acting as co-counsel with
the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC)
of Stanford Law School's Mills Legal Clinic, had fought for JoJo's release. Jawed Ahmad, a 22-year-old Canadian Television (CTV)
journalist, had been held without charge in military custody at the
detention facility at the United States Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan
since October 2007.
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IJNetwork's Tina Foster and Barbara Olshansky traveled to Afghanistan in July of 2008 and worked with Afghanistan Human Rights Organisation chairman Lal Gul to bring attention to the illegal detention of CTV journalist Jo Jo Ahmad.
Read more in the AFP news story .
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