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National Raids 11
August 2005 : Press
Statements 1) This morning a number of
individuals we represent were taken from their addresses. All of
these were individuals whom the Home Office had agreed were
appropriate to be granted bail. We were not notified by the Home
Office of these arrests. Those who have families contacted us
immediately through their families. So far as those who do not, we
have been forced to speculate; one single man we know was seized
from the psychiatric hospital where he has been an inpatient since
his release from detention under the discredited 2001 Anti Terrorism
Crime and Security Act. Of those likely to have been arrested today,
five are the subject of serious psychiatric concern as a result of
the damage each was caused by his previous indefinite detention.
Despite the Home Office knowing that those individuals were legally
represented, and by whom, we were provided with no information for
hours as to their identity, since when all the individuals have
disappeared. No legal access has been provided. Some families were
told that they were being taken to Woodhill prison. We were refused
all access by Woodhill prison and now understand informally that the
individuals taken there have been moved again, possibly separately
to destinations unknown. This is the precise scenario of arrest and
thereafter depravation of access to lawyers that occurred for the
same men when they were seized in December 2001. The Home Office
undertook then that the same would never happen again. 2) As you know we at
Birnberg Peirce act for most of the people arrested today, we have
been told for deportation to Algeria and Jordan, two countries where
it is well known they would not be safe from torture and
ill-treatment. All were previously detained under the 2001 Act
precisely because the government accepted that in accordance with
the rule of law they could not be safely deported for those reasons.
They were then released on electronic tagging control orders in
March 2005 after the House of Lords ruled it was unlawful to intern
them indefinitely without trial on secret evidence. Almost all (and
many of their wives and children) have developed psychiatric
disorders as a result of their detention, four so seriously they had
to be released from prison three of whom were transferred to
psychiatric institutions; yet all of which are now back in prison,
after having complied perfectly with the control orders, and with no
thought to the known consequences of such detention on individuals
and their families already so vulnerable. These men detained today
have, uniquely, been under more surveillance and monitoring by the
authorities during the last four years than anyone else and would
have been charged or at least had breach of control order
proceedings commenced against them if there was any reason to
suspect any had been doing anything; all of the claims that we are
now starting to see in the brief letters each has been issued with
seems only to relate to alleged associations and fund raising
activities several years ago before they were initially detained.
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