Khalid's Campaign for The Rights of Iraqi Detainees

My brother Khalid has published a really long post on his blog, telling the full story of his detention.

They started by asking me: “What’s the connection between you and the London Bombs?” !!!

And I was like: “haaaaa???!!”. I said: “London Bombs???! Nothing!”

BANG!!

A heavy hand landed on my neck, my brain was too busy to feel the pain, I felt my neck numbing for a while.

“SPEAAAK” he shouted.

“Turn around” he yelled.

I turned, facing the room now, but not seeing anything other than my nose and the shoes of the person who was interrogating me, standing so close.

“Why do you have a beard?” he asked.

“Because the prophet...” (I was trying to tell him that prophet Mohammad had one, and that I have one because I love to look like him...)

BANG

He slapped me on the face. It made a loud noise that the room became dead-silent for some seconds….

“May the prophet curse you” he shouted.

Again, my brain didn’t respond to the pain signals, I didn’t feel it.

Khalid is safe now, but he didn’t forget about the other thousands of Iraqis in the jails and prisons around the country...

The question is: what about the rest of Iraqis? The ones who don’t have the money or the power to leave places like that? The innocent people who were taken away from their families and loved ones and accused of false crimes? What happens to them? Who will stand for them? What about human rights? What about civil rights? What about humanity?

I hope all the other Iraqi prisoners will go back home safe. And I’ll work with my family to ask the US administration and the Iraqi authorities to improve the situation of the detention for the Iraqis. People should have the right to inform their families about their location, and they should have the right to appear in front of a judge very soon after being detained without being questioned and tortured, and they should have real lawyers in the court, they should at least know their charges!

Khalid's Campaign asks for the next three points:

1-Detainees should have the right to inform their families about their location.

2-Detainees should have the right to appear in front of a judge in the first 48 hours from being detained, without being tortured and humiliated.

3-Detainees should have the right to have a real lawyer in the court.

I'll try to search for the right people to contact, and I'll post their contact information in my next post. If you have useful suggestions, please don't hesitate to post a comment in the Forum & Comments Section.