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Seven Years of Madness: The Harrowing Tale of Mahmoud Abu Rideh and Britain's Anti-Terror Laws


World  (tags: injustice, mental-torture, control orders, detention-without-trial, secret-courts, secret-evidence )

Eleanor
- 220 days ago - andyworthington.co.uk
Today, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian-born British resident with a British wife and six British children, has a hearing at the High Court in London to consider his request for internationally valid travel documents which would allow him to leave the cou
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Judy Cross (83)
Friday July 3, 2009, 12:17 pm


"Then they came for the Moslems
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Moslem
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."
 

Eleanor B. (892)
Friday July 3, 2009, 12:32 pm
The sad thing is that the British Muslim community has done nothing to help these men. Their leaders are either too afraid or have too cosy a relationship with the government. If they had stood up and said 'stop this or no Muslim will vote for you', there may have been some hope of justice. It is extremely sad. The UK establishment knows how to divide and conquer - they have practised it for hundreds of years.
 

Rianne t. (67)
Friday July 3, 2009, 1:32 pm
Mahmoud Abu Rideh, like ALL people deserve justice. Sad indeed that we're so fractured that not enough happens. I pray for peace & justice for all (and now back to blogging and writing my MP & others about what I believe needs doing).
 

Michelle M. (83)
Saturday July 4, 2009, 2:28 am
This is absymally wrong. Thank you Eleanor.
 

Eleanor B. (892)
Saturday July 4, 2009, 6:26 am
Thank you, Judy, Rianne and Michelle.
 

Eureka Morrison (264)
Tuesday July 7, 2009, 12:45 pm
I have left a comment at the site. Detention without tral is an abomination. There is no wrong in the world that can ever justify this. We have voted these governments into power - and as Judy so rightly says, when we don't speak against tyranny, dare we hope that someone will speak for us when that tyranny is finally turned against us? I think not. Mea Culpa!
 
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