UNJUST EXTRADITION OF BRITISH CITIZENS TO THE US MUST STOP PUBLIC MEETING WEDNESDAY 23RD MAY 6-8PM HEND HOUSE (also Zakat House), 233 SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, LONDON WC2 BEE CHAIR: BRUCE KENT SUPPORTED BY LIBERTY SPEAKERS: GARETH PEIRCE, FR JOE RYAN (Chair, Westminster Justice and Peace Commission) ISABELLA SANKEY (Liberty), SALMA YAQOOB (Respect) RIZ AHMED (Actor, The Road to Guantanamo, Four Lions) DAVID...
The poet Talha Ahsan is awaiting extradition to the US, where he faces a life in detention virtually deprived of human contact AL Kennedy Talha Ahsan ‘has written the letters to the wider world which are his poems’. As you will know, I am not in any way a fan of arguments which claim that artists are more sensitive than others, or indeed liable to be more insane than others. I do agree – and find it reasonable to assert – that...
Richard Haley Solitary confinement is commonplace in US prisons. Most US states have over the last 30 years introduced specialised new segregation facilities, often referred to as “supermax.” Around 80,000 people are estimated to be incarcerated in facilities of this sort. But although supermax units are widespread across the various US state prison systems, there is just one federal supermax prison – the Administrative Maximum (ADX)...
SACC Press Release Monday 28 November 2011 Extradition go-ahead would be a “human rights catastrophe” Human Rights group Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC) will shortly be contacting the governments of Britain, the USA, France, Germany, Turkey and Australia asking them to take action to eliminate long-term solitary confinement and isolation of prisoners. The announcement comes days after Parliament debated Britain’s...
Click here to listen to the poem read by Manjinder Virk: Searching for the Eid Moon Searching for the Eid Moon For Zubair B Upon the Hindu Kush, where rock punches sky, a drama of stars plays overhead. A party shivers in their shawls, fists scrunched like tin foil; and as sandals rasp across a ridge rifles on shoulder straps cluck behind them like dumb beasts. With the spin of a heel, the universe contracts. Men, each like a tribal elder, generations...
Ahsan is not asking for much, just justice
and the right to be treated as we would want our own brothers and sisters treatedTalha Ahsan is a British-born poet and writer with Asperger syndrome facing extradition to America.
If convicted he will spend 70 years in “supermax” solitary confinement in ADX Florence.
Read on and help stop this injustice.
Learn MoreI know Syed Talha Ahsan as a friend and in his capacity as a writer and commentator on Islamic issues, current affairs and the plight of those facing injustice. I found him to be a sincere, caring and rational person. He was one who consistently provided a voice for those less fortunate or those facing oppression.
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