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German Resident released from Guantanamo |
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25th August 2006 -  Murat Kurnaz, a Turk with German residency, held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has been released and was handed over to German authorities at Ramstein, U.S. Air Force Base in Germany on Thursday.
Mr Kurnaz's lawyer, Bernhard Docke said on his release. "Finally after 4-3/4 years of martyrdom, of torture, and deprivation of rights, the news has arrived -- Mr. (Murat) Kurnaz is free,"
Kurnaz,spent almost five years at Guantanamo, was born in Germany in 1982, and was in the process of becoming a German citizen when he was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001. Click here for details
At the Press conference given on friday Mr Bernard Docke, the lawyer for Mr Kurnaz, said "The Americans are incorrigible, they have not learned a thing. He was returned home in chains, humiliated and dishonoured to the very end by the Americans, It was a giant American transport aircraft and he was alone in it with 15 US soldiers. He was chained down, his feet were chained, and his eyes covered."
Press Conference details as reported on Al-Jazeera website.
Now that the German administration has been able to get one of their residents released from Guantanamo, we should expect the British administration to be able to do the same and soon. In Birmingham, we are collecting signatures on a petition to get the Birmingham Council to pass a resolution pressurising the British government to get the British residents released and to bring them back to Britain. Click Here to support the Petition |
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