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Second Letter From Muslims
In Belmarsh.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
This letter was received by the Islamic Observation Centre from
behind the bars of Belmarsh high-security Prison in Britain. This is
the content of the letter as was received:
A Witness and a Call
From your imprisoned brothers in the Guantanamo of Britain –
Belmarsh Prison – to the Muslims all over the World:
This is the second letter in which we describe to you the oppression
we experience at the hands of the British, as a result of what you
know of the policies of this country and its engagement in all forms
of oppression as done by other countries like Israel and US against
the Muslims, but (this oppression is done) in a manner that fools
the weak and simple minded.
We had mentioned to you before that the situation here in Belmarsh
is akin, without any difference except in its portrayal from that
which occurs to your Muslim brothers in Guantanamo, and their
newspapers, and some of the more truthful journalists testify to
this; but the government tries to conceal all this from the media
and strives to do as it wishes in a secretive manner. When the
government began to find out that the knowledge of its oppression
had begun to leak into the public domain it brought a TV crew which
began to take photos of Belmarsh prison which had become a source of
shame for it, like Guantanamo became a shame on US, in an attempt to
enhance its image. It further took photos of some of the short term
benefits, such as the provision of good food and interviewed some of
the prisoners who were benefiting from some of these benefits, and
likewise photographed some of activities that occur within the
prison, making the prison out to be a paradise that someone outside
it would desire. Frankly, your brothers here didn’t know of this
deception that was happening in this land, nay, they thought it was
restricted to our home lands, but it became clear that all the lies
that are told in our lands, were taken and derived from the policies
of this country and its government.
The situation of your brothers has become unacceptably bad, for some
of your brothers almost lost their minds, and others have begun to
suffer from psychological diseases. This is not as a result of
nothing; rather this was a pre-planned evil and malevolent policy to
cause your brothers to reach these levels.
We had previously informed you of the issue of the food provided,
and your brothers still do not eat the meat that is offered to them,
as the prison administration had confessed that it was providing
non-halal meat for over a year, it still lies about this, and we
have documentation that proves this. This was a shock that gave them
much grief!
Attempts at humiliating your brothers and destroying them still take
place, and the most crucial and dangerous of them, are the
continuous attempts at searching your brothers and causing them to
undress in every movement they do; even when they are visited by
their families, and they perform this in a sadistic manner that is
no less than what you hear from what their soldiers do in Iraq. In
fact, some brothers have begun to have severe hallucinations that
the prison guards here wish for him evil in doing this (i.e.
undressing them) from those things that they do to each other
without shame (i.e. homosexuality) and they know its severity and
brutality upon the Muslims.
Our brothers:
Your obligation is to know that this state has tried to improve its
image with Muslims in recent periods, and this was after appalling
investigations conducted by advisors and monitors were given to the
government, especially after it learnt that what it does to the
Muslims does not bring her any benefit except vacating its hatred on
us. By the grace of Allah, many Muslims know that this state is at
the forefront of showing enmity to the Muslims alongside other
nations, seeing that over three-thousand Muslims have been stopped
by the police under the pretext of terrorism, and a Lord with a
Muslim background admitted that was stopped three times, so what of
someone other than him? What we mention here is a witness and a call
to you, that the reality has not changed, for they are ongoing in
their plans to destroy the minds of your brothers.
The undressing of your brothers here, and their insistence on it is
a calculated policy by which they wish that the imprisoned Muslims
attain diseased conditions by it, and after this policy was
uncovered in Iraq, it became clear that their policy is in truth
one.
We write these words to bear witness and clear our conscious, and we
know that there is none other than Allah that will expose it.
And Allah is our Master and Ally.
Your imprisoned Muslim brothers in the Guantanamo of Britain
Belmarsh Prison, London
18-06-2004
On our behalf as the Islamic Observation Centre we call on the
British authorities to stop these infringements of prisoners’ rights
in Belmarsh prison and all other British prisoners. We also call on
all national and international human rights organisations, and all
those with conscious to partake and swiftly act to stop these
inhumane acts in prisons and to guarantee the minimum human rights,
and to improve the situation of those imprisoned. We also request
swift action to investigate these infringements which the prisoners
suffer.
What is unfortunate is that despite the international world agreeing
to a number of rights for prisoners, regardless of the state of
affairs surrounding his arrest and imprisonment, we find these
infringements in countries that claim to be upholders of human
rights, and it is known that every human being has certain
fundamental rights which are impermissible to break (or otherwise),
this is considered as a treading upon his rights and honour. These
internationally recognised rights are to be implemented in all the
countries that agreed to and signed the agreements and treaties
concerned.
The Islamic Observation Centre condemns and disapproves of these
acts and infringements, and requests the British authorities to open
an independent investigation to find out the ones responsible for
these infringements, so that it may take the necessary legal action
against them, and for them to stop these acts and consider the
specific religious ascriptions of these prisoners. The British
authorities should act against making the United Kingdom turn from a
country that respects human rights to a human rights graveyard.
Source: Islamic Observation Centre
Friday Jumaada al-Awwal, 1425 AH / 25th June 2004
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