Thursday June 4, 2009, 12:48 pm
They should provide the evidence or let him go. What they are doing is inhuman and they are making the situation worse.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 2:28 pm
This is so insane. They have to let him go now!
Noted with sadness. Poor Mr. Abu Rideh, what sad is his life and even sadest that he lost his precious wife and Precious children.
Noted with sadness Dearest Eleanor.
Love,
Black Dalia

Thursday June 4, 2009, 2:36 pm
Alan, there is no evidence. He and all the others in the same position are simply scapegoats. The UK is in no danger from him or any other of the foreign nationals (who fled persecution in their own lands) they have chosen to use to persecute to justify their curtailment of liberty, their draconian anti-terror laws, their secret courts, secret evidence, control orders, their introduction of thought crimes, their surveillance society - all totally undemocratic.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 2:51 pm
Thanks, Dalia. Yes, it is incredibly sad. It is horrific that this could happen to a man and his family in a so-called democracy. It is astonishing that his wife has been told that she cannot return - she is a British national! And to refuse him the right to leave this awful country is simply unjustifiable. They seem to want him dead. At best, they don't care if he dies or not. They have no soul, no compassion, no humanity.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 6:26 pm
Sent e-mails. I hope they help. Thanks Eleanor.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 6:55 pm
Sent e~mails too Eleanor. His treatment is hardly surprising though since it was the British who sold out the Palestinians originally from about 1910. Generally if you research a longlasting world conflict you'll find the British; if they didn't actually start it by war or duplicity they've definitely had a hand in it somewhere in the past.

Thursday June 4, 2009, 7:03 pm
noted thank you

Thursday June 4, 2009, 7:09 pm
Noted , thank you !!!

Friday June 5, 2009, 6:05 am
Justice means innocent until proven guilty. Mr Abu Rideh and all those many others locked up without court case should have right to fair trial or be released immediately.

Friday June 5, 2009, 6:37 am
Oh terrible my darling! Noted, thank you!

Friday June 5, 2009, 9:25 am
John, you are so right. The British sold out the Palestinians and they are at the root of so many other troubles. The British Empire was a disaster for the peoples of this world.
Thanks everyone for noting, writing and for your comments. Everything is appreciated.

Friday June 5, 2009, 11:35 am
Thanks Eleanor, let us raise our voices loud and clear over this travesty of justice.

Friday June 5, 2009, 11:38 am
Thanks, Robert.

Friday June 5, 2009, 2:55 pm
Thanks Eleanor!

Friday June 5, 2009, 9:01 pm
Prolonged arrests should be on the basis of solid and strong evidences.If not, he should immediately be released.

Saturday June 6, 2009, 3:20 am
Noted with sadness.

Saturday June 6, 2009, 8:19 pm
this cruelity and insane datention is overrolled and at least should be released immediately beside his degnity should be
be resrved with official apology.

Wednesday June 10, 2009, 3:25 pm
This man should be released and I'm glad to see so many supporting the campaign to have his rights restored. The war on terror fostered laws that remove constitutional protections & civil rights in the US, just as similar laws were passed in Great Britain for the same motives.
As you say, they are undemocratic and there should be a great protest movement to have them repealed and civil rights restored!


Please help these two young men, victims of such Bush-era war on terror laws, SAMs, and mentality that have not disappeared with Obama's victory, not in Britain nor in the US, where their plight has yet to attract major media - and, thus, public- attention, not to say outcry! (unless you consider the NYTimes major media, and they have reported on only one of these miscarriages of justice):

Brooklyn College Grad Experiences the Constitution in a Cage: Held in a Manhattan Federal Prison For >2 YRS in 23-Hr Solitary Pre-Trial Confinement Via Govt Informant Plea-Bargain - Please Click on FreeFahad.com Link in Comments! US citizen Farad Hashmi, who has lived in the States since age 4 (his family emigrated from Pakistan), is being held in terrible conditions in a NY fed prison, charged with giving al-Qaeda material support: prosecuted for putting up at his place for 2 wks an old acquaintance carrying rain gear allegedly later delivered to Pakistan al-Qaeda leader. The rain gear is considered 'military gear.'
His former Brooklyn College adviser & professor leads the campaign to free him and I have linked in the comments to the extraordinary 3-page article she wrote in The Nation, 'Guantanamo at Home,' which includes this: "Hashmi was apprehended in Britain on June 6, 2006, on a US warrant; his arrest was featured as the top story on the CBS and NBC nightly news programs, which used graphics blaring Terror Trail and Web of Terror. Held for eleven months without incident at Belmarsh Prison, he became the first US citizen to be extradited by Britain under new policies relaxing the standard for extradition in terrorism cases."

2nd case:
Youssef Megahed Cleared of Terror Charges, Now Detained Again & Facing Deportation For Same Terror Charges : Acquitted by a federal jury but 3 days later again arrested, this time by immigration. They just label you a terrorist & that's it, said Megahed, 23, an engineering student who has lived in the US since his family left Egypt and settled in Florida when he was 11. He has been detained since April. Some of the jurors who acquitted him have openly expressed their outrage, in a rare departure from standard practice; Arab-American groups, civil rights organizations, & churches have lobbied Obama; the ACLU (american civil liberties union) addressed a letter on April 20, 2009 to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling on her to release Youssef Megahed ("We are urging the federal government to release Mr. Megahed during the proceedings in immigration court and, if the charges in immigration court are indeed based on the very same facts as the criminal charges for which he has been acquitted, to dismiss the removal proceedings.") - to no avail so far. CBS finally included the story on their evening news on June 6th. (links to both the ACLU letter and the CBS article cum video are in the comments section of the post.)

Will this make any difference? I haven't found a petition for Youssef anywhere, at least when I googled it.