Cageprisoners Press Release:
British Detainee Reveals Location of 'Ghost' Detainee & British Complicity In Torture

Rangzieb Ahmed, a British citizen convicted last week of directing potential terrorism activities in the UK has given Cageprisoners permission to release the testimony of his unlawful detention and torture in Pakistan.

The testimony was used as part of a pre-trial session in his case where it was revealed that he was abused to the extent that his fingernails were torn out. Despite the significance of such testimony to his activities in Pakistan, the court refused to allow for the information to be made available to the jury when considering the case before them.

During his detention in Pakistan, Ahmed reveals that he was detained alongside Hassan Ghul, one of the many ‘ghost’ detainees kept in secret detention by the CIA. Ghul was detained in Iraq in 2004 and has been missing in US custody since the revelation by Ahmed.

The testimony of Ahmed further points to the complicity of the British security services in the unlawful detention and torture of British suspects abroad.

Cageprisoners has published the full testimony on its website and it can be downloaded at the following link:

www.cageprisoners.com/downloads/RangziebAhmed.pdf

Ahmed is not the only British citizen to have been treated in such a way. Cageprisoners also today publishes the testimony of Zeeshan Siddiqui, a man who was tortured in Pakistan before returning to the UK and placed under a control order. His testimony can be found at the following link:

www.cageprisoners.com/downloads/ZeeshanSiddiqui.pdf

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Cageprisoners is a human rights organisation that exists to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror. We aim to give a voice to the voiceless.

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