AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: WILL US SEEK DEATH PENALTY IN FIRST TRIAL OF FORMER GITMO DETAINEE?

Thursday, July 9, 2009, 21:36
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By Brian Evans, Death Penalty Abolition Campaigner at Amnesty International USA

Last month, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani became the prototypal metropolis Bay captive to be brought to the United States for effort right of the expeditionary authorisation system. His effort is ordered to begin in Sept 2010 in a lawful federal court. While this is anticipative programme for another metropolis detainees awaiting their period in court, if not their release, it also effectuation that there is a existence that the US polity module oppose the modification penalty should Ghailani be convicted.

Ahmed Ghailani, dropped in Zanzibar, Tanzania, was inactive in Pakistan in 2004 and brought to metropolis in 2006 for his questionable status with the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. For digit eld he was held in info detention by the Central Intelligence Agency, after which he was transferred to solitary confinement at Guantanamo and finally live by a expeditionary authorisation in 2008. Those charges hit been dropped and he module today existence proven in federal suite on counts which allow conspiring with Osama Bin Laden and another members of al-Qaeda to blackball Americans, and charges of remove for apiece of the victims of the US Embassy attacks. Mr. Ghailani has pled not-guilty to every charges, locution that he was not a member of al-Qaeda and did not undergo most the attacks aweigh of time.

Mr. Ghailani’s housing haw be a effort of President Obama’s prospect to closed downbound metropolis Bay, and haw ordered a illustration for how kindred cases strength proceed. As a result, there module be a enthusiastic care of planetary tending presented to his trial. It is especially primary for the United States to shew a dedication to manlike rights at this grave occurrence by not hunt the modification penalisation for Ahmed Ghailani.

Additionally, the United States staleness analyse the conditions close Mr. Ghailani’s implemented disappearance. Such an enquiry is required by Article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the US is a party. Any aggregation obtained low conditions that break planetary standards staleness be proclaimed impermissible in court, and a complete enquiry of Mr. Ghailani’s communication in info confinement and at metropolis module be primary to ensuring he is presented a clean trial.

Please urge the United States polity to impact Ahmed Ghailani with humans and fairness at his trial.

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 Amnesty International: Will US Seek Death Penalty in First Trial of Former Gitmo Detainee?

 Amnesty International: Will US Seek Death Penalty in First Trial of Former Gitmo Detainee?

 Amnesty International: Will US Seek Death Penalty in First Trial of Former Gitmo Detainee?  Amnesty International: Will US Seek Death Penalty in First Trial of Former Gitmo Detainee?  Amnesty International: Will US Seek Death Penalty in First Trial of Former Gitmo Detainee?

 Amnesty International: Will US Seek Death Penalty in First Trial of Former Gitmo Detainee?

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