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FAMILY OF 'GHOST PRISONER' DETAINED WITHOUT CHARGE FOR 6 YEARS IN US CUSTODY AT BAGRAM AIRBASE FILES LAWSUIT
Tuesday, July 29, 2008, New York, NY --Nearly six years after his son's disappearance, Muhammad Al Bakri filed a habeas corpus petition in Washington, D.C. today on behalf of his son, Amin Al Bakri. According to the petition filed today in Al Bakri v. Bush, U.S. agents abducted Mr. Al Bakri, a forty year-old Yemeni gemstone trader and father of three, from Bangkok, Thailand. At the time of his abduction in December 2002, Mr. Al Bakri was on his way back home after a brief five-day business trip and was headed to the Bangkok airport after checking out of his hotel when he disappeared.
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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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Link: PRESS STATEMENT
Link: Boumediene Decision
Press Contact: Mahdis Keshavarz
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June 12, 2008, New York, NY--In today's decision in Boumediene v. Bush,
No. 06-1195----the United States Supreme Court today stated beyond all
doubt that the rule of law is alive and well in this country and that
the three branches of government--the executive, legislative, and
judicial branches--are once again functioning as they should be in the
world's strongest democracy.
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