 Amnesty International on Monday criticized Britain's desire to deport security suspects to Algeria, citing alleged torture techniques used by military intelligence in the north African nation.
| Did they mention anything about the explosives techniques of the guys the Brits want to deport?... I thought not. |
The London-based human rights group spoke out the day before an Algerian security suspect identified as "Y" was to launch his appeal to overturn British attempts to send him back to his homeland. "We are very concerned that the United Kingdom government is seeking to send people back to Algeria, where they would be at serious risk of torture," Amnesty's U.K. director Kate Allen said.
| If the guy was Samoan or Vietnamese or Polish, I'd be concerned, too. But sending an Algerian back to Algeria has a sort of intellectual symmetry to it. |
| Let's see, he doesn't want to go home to Algeria since he values his fingernails. At the same time, he wants to subvert and destroy the country that gave him refuge. I'm sure AI has a word for that; I know I do. |
Amnesty sent Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika an official memorandum last week detailing 12 cases of alleged torture, secret detention and ill-treatment by the Department for Information and Security (DRS). "It is particularly those alleged to be involved with terrorism who are at risk in Algeria, where the powerful DRS military intelligence service continues to operate with impunity - secretly detaining and torturing those whom it suspects," Allen said.
| On the other hand, GAI is defunct, and GSPC hasn't been doing that well lately. Perhaps that bit of ruthlessness on the part of the gummint had something to do with it? |
"The UK government is trying to negotiate a deal that would deliver people into the hands of a government with a long record of torture and which still allows the DRS free rein to hold people in secret and torture them."
| Strange. My sympathy meter simply refuses to move at all. |
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