BREAKING NEWS: MET ADMIT SADISTIC BRUTALITY ON BABAR AHMAD (18/03/09)

Click here for statements from Babar Ahmad, Babar Ahmad's family and Fiona Murphy (Babar Ahmad's solicitor) (18/03/09)

Click here to download the 'Press Pack' (press releases, court documents and an injury picture not previously released) (18/03/09)

Click here for Phillippa Kaufmann's (Babar Ahmad's civil case barrister) opening statement (16/03/09) (5MB Zip file)

Click here to read a summary of day one of the civil proceedings (16/03/09)

Click here to download Babar Ahmad's high resolution injury photos (12MB Zip file)

UPDATE: Decision from European Court Expected Sometime in April 2009 (17/03/09)

"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Background

Babar Ahmad is a 34 year old British Muslim and the longest detained-without-charge British detainee held as part of the global ‘war on terror’. In December 2003 Babar was arrested at his London home under anti-terror legislation. By the time he reached the police station Babar had sustained at least 73 forensically recorded injuries, including bleeding in his ears and urine. Six days later he was released without charge.

Babar then filed a formal complaint that he had been subjected to horrific physical, sexual and religious abuse by the arresting police officers. An IPCC supervised investigation later dismissed his complaint and even “commended” one of these officers for his “great bravery” in arresting him. Babar is currently suing the Metropolitan Police for assault.

In August 2004 Babar was re-arrested in London and taken to prison pursuant to an extradition request from the US under the controversial, no-evidence-required, Extradition Act 2003. The US has alleged that in the 1990s Babar was a supporter of “terrorism”. Babar denies any involvement in terrorism. He has now been in prison for four years even though he has not been charged in the UK.

Babar’s family, friends and campaigners have mounted a high profile campaign for his release. He recently appeared in the news when it was revealed that the police had bugged his prison visits with his MP, Sadiq Khan (Labour-Tooting). His final appeal against extradition is at The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, which is due to decide on it shortly. If extradited he faces the rest of his natural life in solitary confinement in a maximum security US ‘Supermax’ prison.

Babar's father Ashfaq Ahmad Campaigning for his release

Campaign Supported by:

Muslim Council of Britain, Islamic Human Rights' Commission, Campaign Against Criminalising of Communities, Imperial College Students' Union, Liberty, Muslim Association of Britain, The 1990 Trust, Respect, Islamic Shariah Council of Great Britain, Stop the War Coalition, and many more organisations and individuals.

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