Mr. Jawed Ahmad
International Justice Network Continues Legal Battle Against Human
Rights Abuses by the Bush Administration in the “War on Terror”
Contact: Mahdis Keshavarz
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425.591.8781
June 3, 2008, New York, NY—Attorneys from the International Justice Network (IJNetwork) filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. government seeking the release of 22-year old Canadian Television (CTV) journalist, Jawed Ahmad. Ahmad has been held incommunicado by the U.S. military for more than six months without charge at the notorious United States Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, where several confirmed instances of detainee abuse and deaths have occurred.
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May
16, 2008, New York, NY--
Attorneys from the International Justice
Network (IJN), the organization who has championed the rights of innocents
held at US prisons in Afghanistan, today expressed outrage over recent
revelations by the Justice Department that they are holding youth under the age
of 18 at the notorious adult prison. In a report released to the United Nations
Committee on the Rights of the Child, the United States government admitted to
holding over 90 children in Afghanistan, including 10 children who currently
remain at the Bagram prison among the adult population.
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stern.de April, 2008
He spent over four years in Guantánamo Bay, the infamous US
detention camp. The tale of Murat Kurnaz, as told by himself, will hit
US bookstores this week. In his first interview since his release from
Guantánamo Bay in 2006, Kurnaz tells Germany's "Stern" magazine all
about torture, solitary confinement, being humiliated, and his life in
fear.
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"Guantánamo is a place without laws, that is what it was created for"
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"Although the German government knew that I had never broken any laws,
although they had no evidence against me, although they knew that I had
been tortured, they left me in Guantánamo for over three more years."
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Did you cry as well [when you were reunited with your family]?
"Everybody cried. I did not. I do not know if I can still cry. Perhaps I forgot how to cry on Cuba."
Read more at stern.de...
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In a February 4, 2008 article, Jane Sutton writes about Omar Khadr, who was captured at age 15. He was compelled to fight by extremists who told him that the US was out to destroy his religion, Islam. He has been held without trial for 6 years. The military assigned Navy Lt. William Kuebler to represent him in a recent proceeding that few lawyers would call a trial. Lt. Kuebler nevertheless asked a military judge to throw out the charges against the Canadian detainee, saying that "He is a victim of al Qaeda, not a member of al Qaeda." Children are not considered capable of voluntarily consenting to be combatants. Jane Sutton's article appears on Reuters.com |
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January 7, 2008 New York, NY—Attorneys from the International Justice Network (IJN) today denounced the Bush Administration for their continued refusal to provide access to IJN clients currently held at the Bagram Airforce Base prison camp. Amid recent reports in the New York Times detailing how the Bush Administration’s detention policy extends well beyond Guantánamo into facilities such as Bagram, IJN continues to express concern for their clients and call for the US government to comply with the Geneva Conventions and release civilians who are not involved in the conflict in Afghanistan. Download or view entire press release here: IJN Bagram Release Jan 7, 2008
Contact: Mahdis Keshavarz email: Mahdis@TheMakeAgency ph: 425.591.8781 |
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