[Sosfbay-discuss] Al Jazeera Reporter Detained 6 Years to Sue Bush

[Brian Good]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/17/guantanamo-bay-al-jazeera

An al-Jazeera journalist who was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay plans to launch a joint legal action with other detainees against former US president George Bush
and other administration officials, for the illegal detention and
torture he and others suffered at the hands of US authorities.
The
case will be initiated by the Guantánamo Justice Centre, a new
organisation open to former prisoners at the US base, which will set up
its international headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, later this month.
"The
purpose of our organisation is to open a case against the Bush
administration," said co-founder Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera reporter
from Sudan who was illegally detained by US authorities for over six
years after being captured while he was working as a cameraman. He was
freed in May 2008....


The
legal action may be modelled on an action against General Augusto
Pinochet, who was arrested in the UK in 1998 at the request of a
Spanish prosecutor for the alleged murders of Spanish citizens in Chile
under his dictatorship...."Torture is continuing in Guantánamo," al-Haj said. "Obama needs to close Guantánamo immediately."


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