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CALL FOR THE REPATRIATION OF ALI AL-MARRI IN JAN 2015 لك_الله_يابن_كحله#

June 10, 2014
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<div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>We ask our supporters to write to Dr. HE.&nbsp; </font></font></font><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>Khalid Bin Mohammed AlAttiyah in order to call for the repatriation of Ali al-Marri, who is due for release in two thousand and fifteen. There are fears That the U.S. will not send him back to his home country , Qatar in January but will instead hold him for upto another 3 years.&nbsp;</font></font></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>Letters sent to:</font></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>HE Dr..&nbsp; </font></font></font><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>Khalid Bin Mohammed AlAttiyah</font></font></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>Ministry of Foreign Affairs</font></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>Almirqab Tower</font></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>West Bay</font></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>Doha - Qatar</font></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>Tel: +974-40111111</font></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font><font>Email Address:&nbsp; </font></font></font><font style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-transition: color 0.3s linear, background; transition: color 0.3s linear, background; outline: none 0px; border: 0px none; color: rgb(241, 88, 37);"><font><a href="http://Webmaster@mofa.gov.qa/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s linear, background; -webkit-transition: color 0.3s linear, background; outline: none 0px; border: 0px none; color: rgb(241, 88, 37);">Webmaster@mofa.gov.qa</a></font></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">الموضوع : المعتقل علي بن صالح أل كحلة المري</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">سعادة الدكتور خالد بن محمد العطيه &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; وزير الخارجية &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;وفقه الله</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته &nbsp; &nbsp;وبعد ..</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">دولة قطر ولله الحمد والمنٌة من الدول الرائدة في التدخل في القضايا الأنسانيٌة وتقوم من وقت إلى أخر بدور فعال في الأفراج عن آسرى ومعتقلين ومختطفين في أجزاء مختلفة من العالم .. وهي بلا شك جهود جبٌارة تستحق الأحترام والتقدير وتدعوا للفخر والإعتزاز.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ونحن أذ نذكر ذلك .. قد تفاجأنا مؤخرا بتزامن خبريين في وقت واحد مما سبب الإلتباس والحيرة ليس فقط لأبناء وأقارب المعتقل بل لجميع الشعب القطري خاصة وجميع المتعاطفين معه من خارج قطر عامة . الخبر الأول هو قيام دولة قطر بدور الوساطة للإفراج عن الجندي الأمريكي مقابل خمسة من قيادات طالبان بينما الخبر الآخر أبن قطر المعتقل علي بن صالح أل كحله المري &nbsp;سيوضع تحت الأقامة الجبريّة لمدة ثلاث سنوات بعد 18/1/2015 التاريخ المقرر للأفراج عنه .</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">لقد عانى المعتقل كما تعلمون أشد المعاناة في الثلاثة عشر عاما السابقة . مر خلالها بظروف صعبة لا يتحملها متحمل .. في سجن إنفرادي لا يتعامل إلا مع سجانيّه . فسجناء جزيرة &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;غواتناموا على ماهم فيه من البلاء إلا إنهم في نعيم ورحمة مقارنة بالمعتقل علي بن صالح أل كحله ..</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">المعتقل من أبناء قطر المخلصين عاش أجداده على ثرى هذه الأرض الطيبة .. وشاركوا في بناء قطر شأنهم شأن جميع أطياف الشعب القطري .. الأهتمام به واجب وطني قبل أن يكون واجب ديني .. وقضيتة لها أولية في قلوب جميع القطريين خصوصا وأنه المعتقل القطري الوحيد بمثل هذه القضية في الخارج ..&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">نطالب من سعادتكم &nbsp;العمل على إعادة المعتقل إلى قطر بعد التاريخ المقرر للأفراج عنه في 18 / 1 /2015 وتوضيح ملابسات الأقامة الجبرية لوالدة الأسير وأبناءه وأقاربه وكل المتعاطفين معه .&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; direction: rtl; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">واخيرا ً وليس اخرا .. نعلم حرص صاحب السمو الشيخ : تميم بن حمد أل ثاني حفظه الله &nbsp;وتوصياته لوزارة الخارجية وسعادتك مسؤول أمام الله سبحانه وتعالى ثم أمام الشعب القطري في متابعة أوضاع المواطنين في الخارج . كلنا أمل بالله ثم بمجهودات سعادتك ..وثقتنا بك من ثقة صاحب السمو أمير البلاد المفدى.. ونسأل الله لنا ولك التوفيق والسداد .</div></div></div>

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Torture in America: FBI & DOD torture of Ali al-Marri on the Charleston Naval Brig - Report

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After 13 years in detention in the US, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri returned home to his home country of Qatar. Despite having pled guilty to terrorism, al-Marri was greeted home with a hero’s welcome, with dignitaries at the highest level of government attending to him personally. As he settled back into a life of freedom, al-Marri came to know that the offices of Ali Soufan – one of his interrogators during the early years of detention and the man that Ali al-Marri accuses of being one of his torturers – were located in his city, Doha.

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Despite his guilty plea, Ali al-Marri asserts that his extended conditions of confinement left him with little choice other than to take a plea, in order to have any prospect of returning home to his family. Considering the scaling down of the allegations by the Department of Justice, there is every reason to believe that al-Marri was the unfortunate victim of the excessive approach the US ‘justice system’ was taking to Muslims in a post 9/11 environment.
Since Ali al-Marri’s release in 2014, he has sought help in holding his torturers to account, and CAGE has been involved in helping to investigate this case further. By listening to Ali al-Marri’s story, conducting our own independent background investigations, and reviewing 35,000 pages of documentation, we were able to verify the identities and dates of those who were involved in various aspects of his torture.
Although no distinction should ever be made in terms of the jurisdiction in which torture has taken place, it is of note, that Ali al-Marri, Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla were tortured on US soil, not in a CIA black site or at Guantanamo Bay. In terms of those involved, from the Department of Defense, FBI and civilian contractors, this has implications on any role they might have played in abusing al-Marri.
Some will claim that certain individuals mentioned within these pages are prominent anti-torture advocates. While this may be true to some extent, at CAGE we believe that nothing sends a better message to those who carry out torture, or indeed intend to, than the assertion that: if you torture, you will be held to account.
Accountability may not take place in the courtroom, but it can and will still place in the court of public opinion. At the very least, Ali al-Marri deserves to speak his truth, and hold those who harmed him to account.

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