Held Unlawfully, Wife Falsely Told That She Has Lost Her Unborn Baby, Child Taken Into Custody, Extradited & Now Terminally Ill...
I am an Algerian man, and my name is Mustapha. I am imprisoned in the British “Guantánamo prison”, Belmarsh, a high security prison. My story is close to fiction and I believe that a large number of people, in particular Britons, who will learn about my case, would doubt its credibility because it is strange... But the fact remains a fact and it is up to the people to believe my story or reject it but they have the right to know.
My case started when I was arrested on 13/1/2001, at six o’clock in the morning when the door was smashed down and the British police stormed my home. My three-months pregnant wife and myself were there at the time, my wife is Slovakian. I was taken to Paddington police station and interrogated for one week. They had no evidence to accuse me with but they said following the investigation they found that I have links to a suspected terrorists group arrested in Germany and the evidence is my mobile number was found in one of the detainees’ notebook.
I was detained in Belmarsh for three months in connection to this allegation, then the case was dropped and I was told that I was being released. When I was about to approach the gate of Belmarsh prison, I was told that I was being rearrested for an extradition order to France. They said that you have no problems in this country. I was in Belmarsh prison for three years until all the prisoners in France have been released with whom I was allegedly connected with. Yes, they have been released in France and I remained in Belmarsh without trial now for a continuing four years.
The courts were going to give me bail in 2003 because it was clear that I had already served all the time I would have to serve in France if I was extradited there. But the day before I would have been granted bail, I was told that the Home Secretary was making me subject to the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act, which detains foreign nationals without trial.
My problems were transformed, when all the alleged allegations were dropped and I still continued to be detained without trial in Belmarsh – British Guantánamo – during which the British government practiced an appalling and the most horrific methods to destroy me and my family and indeed they succeeded.
My wife, who is not from this country, was shocked mentally and psychologically which made her mad and she wanders in the streets without care or protection.
She was first shocked when I was arrested and they brutally entered our home which terrified her. The second shock, when all the prisoners in connection with the case were released after three months, I telephoned her and told her that I am on my way home, but I was arrested again at the gate of Belmarsh, as I stated above, so her pain got worse and she started to suffer from a severe hallucination.
During the period of pregnancy and while I was prison, they practiced on my powerless wife what a genuine human being cannot do.
She went to the hospital to have an ultrasound for her unborn baby but they refused and said your husband is a terrorist. Who told them that? The answer is the security service of this country. My wife insisted to have the ultrasound just to make sure but she was told that the ultrasound shows that your unborn baby is dead and that is it, then the powerless and poor woman burst into tears and screamed.
She told me what had happed when I contacted her and I asked her to use the rest of the money she has and go to another hospital to check again. She went to another hospital and she was told the unborn baby is alive and what she was told in the previous hospital was just bad games of the security service...
Because of my problems and this case which is not clear, I drove my wife to the state of complete madness and she neglected our son. She started behaving strangely and then the police intervened and took the child from her. I have been trying for a year and a half to find out what is the fate of my son as he is being moved from one family to another...
... Due to the stress and pressure I developed stomach ulcer and also anal bleed when I use the toilet and normally lose about one and half litres of blood every week.
I wonder, what this country wants from me? What is the wrong thing I did in this country or abroad to deserve this treatment?...
I thought that the people of this country understand the decisions of politicians and their practices but the fact that what I saw is different because the people are just concerned about their lives and they have nothing to do with general and political decisions. What I could say now!
My wife is mentally ill
I do not know where my son will be
I am in prison without charge, trial and do not know my fate
A patient hoping to recover in inadequate circumstances
I did not dream of anything except that I wanted to live with a wife and children happily in a quite home away from any troubles...
My case started when I was arrested on 13/1/2001, at six o’clock in the morning when the door was smashed down and the British police stormed my home. My three-months pregnant wife and myself were there at the time, my wife is Slovakian. I was taken to Paddington police station and interrogated for one week. They had no evidence to accuse me with but they said following the investigation they found that I have links to a suspected terrorists group arrested in Germany and the evidence is my mobile number was found in one of the detainees’ notebook.
I was detained in Belmarsh for three months in connection to this allegation, then the case was dropped and I was told that I was being released. When I was about to approach the gate of Belmarsh prison, I was told that I was being rearrested for an extradition order to France. They said that you have no problems in this country. I was in Belmarsh prison for three years until all the prisoners in France have been released with whom I was allegedly connected with. Yes, they have been released in France and I remained in Belmarsh without trial now for a continuing four years.
The courts were going to give me bail in 2003 because it was clear that I had already served all the time I would have to serve in France if I was extradited there. But the day before I would have been granted bail, I was told that the Home Secretary was making me subject to the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act, which detains foreign nationals without trial.
My problems were transformed, when all the alleged allegations were dropped and I still continued to be detained without trial in Belmarsh – British Guantánamo – during which the British government practiced an appalling and the most horrific methods to destroy me and my family and indeed they succeeded.
My wife, who is not from this country, was shocked mentally and psychologically which made her mad and she wanders in the streets without care or protection.
She was first shocked when I was arrested and they brutally entered our home which terrified her. The second shock, when all the prisoners in connection with the case were released after three months, I telephoned her and told her that I am on my way home, but I was arrested again at the gate of Belmarsh, as I stated above, so her pain got worse and she started to suffer from a severe hallucination.
During the period of pregnancy and while I was prison, they practiced on my powerless wife what a genuine human being cannot do.
She went to the hospital to have an ultrasound for her unborn baby but they refused and said your husband is a terrorist. Who told them that? The answer is the security service of this country. My wife insisted to have the ultrasound just to make sure but she was told that the ultrasound shows that your unborn baby is dead and that is it, then the powerless and poor woman burst into tears and screamed.
She told me what had happed when I contacted her and I asked her to use the rest of the money she has and go to another hospital to check again. She went to another hospital and she was told the unborn baby is alive and what she was told in the previous hospital was just bad games of the security service...
Because of my problems and this case which is not clear, I drove my wife to the state of complete madness and she neglected our son. She started behaving strangely and then the police intervened and took the child from her. I have been trying for a year and a half to find out what is the fate of my son as he is being moved from one family to another...
... Due to the stress and pressure I developed stomach ulcer and also anal bleed when I use the toilet and normally lose about one and half litres of blood every week.
I wonder, what this country wants from me? What is the wrong thing I did in this country or abroad to deserve this treatment?...
I thought that the people of this country understand the decisions of politicians and their practices but the fact that what I saw is different because the people are just concerned about their lives and they have nothing to do with general and political decisions. What I could say now!
My wife is mentally ill
I do not know where my son will be
I am in prison without charge, trial and do not know my fate
A patient hoping to recover in inadequate circumstances
I did not dream of anything except that I wanted to live with a wife and children happily in a quite home away from any troubles...
Source: SACC
Note: Since writing this, Mustapha lost his appeal against extradition and was taken from his cell in December 2005 and was not seen again; Mustapha's whereabouts were only known of when a friend recieved a letter stating that he had been extradited to France. Mustapha has sice been transferred and is now currently in Slovakia.
Note: Since writing this, Mustapha lost his appeal against extradition and was taken from his cell in December 2005 and was not seen again; Mustapha's whereabouts were only known of when a friend recieved a letter stating that he had been extradited to France. Mustapha has sice been transferred and is now currently in Slovakia.
Please write to him in French, English or Arabic to let him know he is neither forgotten nor alone. Writing in French will reach Mustapha quicker but he has more knowledge of English and Arabic: Mustapha LABSI, NAR : 04.09.69 N° 107, OKR. D. STREDA, 93007 MEDVEDÓV, Slovakia
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