Comments on: Five Stories From Britain’s Guantánamo: (1) Detainee Y

By: Britain’s Guantánamo: Fact or Fiction? by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:07:15 +0000

[...] of the meeting is available here, and the profiles of five prisoners are available by following this link, but I thought it was also worth addressing a question posed by the meeting’s title, and to ask [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:48:12 +0000

Hi Ann,
Thanks for the comment. I missed Honor reading it out, but founds Y’s words to be particularly powerful. It is extraordinary to me that someone cleared of the non-existent “ricin plot” should still be persecuted so relentlessly by the British government. Even Dick Cheney didn’t pursue prisoners once they were released from Guantanamo …

By: Ann Alexander

Ann Alexander — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:34:48 +0000

Thanks for printing Y’s statement, Andy. Y is a dear friend who has suffered so much injustice and cruel treatment. I am hopeful that everyone attending the meeting in the House of Commons, will take Y’s words to heart and be motivated to do more to fight secret evidence and release him from the mental torture he is suffering. He has told me in the past about being tortured in Algeria but says that at least this sort of torture has an end where mental torture just goes on and on and on.