Friday, April 28, 2006

'Quick death is preferable to slow death' / IRR, 28 Apr 2006

http://www.irr.org.uk/2006/april/ha000033.html
"The Algerian men in Long Lartin were detained for deportation in August and September 2005. The men had all been detained before as threats to national security but had then been released under control orders - which subject (an individual, his family and friends) to measures which variously involve curfews, electronic tagging, security checks of all visitors, no access to computers, (the restrictions go on).
The men believe that returning to probable torture is a far better prospect than remaining in their current limbo situation, which is affecting not just four men in Long Lartin prison but wives, sons, daughters and fathers whose lives have been turned upside down by anti-terror laws."

Includes Amnesty findings on Algeria