The family and legal team of a British resident jailed in Spain as a terror suspect claim he is the victim of the Spanish equivalent of Guantánamo Bay. | As if Zappie and the Socialists are capable of anything tougher than the comfy chair ... |
Mr Fahsi, 40, was granted residency in Britain two years ago after marrying a Nottingham primary school teacher, Khadija Podd. They have three children. She said: "They detained him and the other members of the legal mosque association which worked in tandem with the town council, near Barcelona," said Ms Podd who has been married to Mr Fahsi for 10 years. "Then they took him and the others to a detention centre in Madrid, where they tortured them for four days."
| "They made him sit in that chair the entire time, the infidels!" |
Ms Podd, a graduate in philosophy and comparative religion from King's College London who met Mr Fahsi when teaching in Spain, said that one of the lawyers in the case referred to Spain as "the other Guantánamo".
"It's pretty shocking that these sorts of abuses are going on in Spain," said Clive Stafford-Smith, a human rights lawyer, who has been following the case. "The parallels with Guantánamo are manifest and the British government should be acting to get him out, too. We are talking about human rights not British rights and the British government should be standing up for human rights everywhere."
| not to mention a more equitable allocation of ponies. |