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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA US Citizen Tortured Abroad by the FBI? -- 5 Cases of Extreme US Govt. Inhumanity in the Obama Era
http://www.alternet.org/world/us-citizen-tortured-abroad-fbi-5-cases-extreme-us-govt-inhumanity-obama-era***SNIP
While Meshals alleged abuse took place while the Bush administration was in power, it was the Obama administration that defended the FBI during the court case. And Meshals case highlights how the Obama administration has partnered with unsavory allies abroad to detain and torture people accused--often with little evidence--of having links to terrorism.
Here are 4 more cases of torture in the Obama era--including the cases of American citizens.
1. Yonas Fikre. In 2011, Yonas Fikre was detained in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), interrogated and allegedly tortured, as Mother Jones investigative reporter Nick Baumann first revealed. Fikre is a Muslim-American from Oregon.
Fikres ordeal began in 2010, while he was in Sudan. He was contacted by FBI agents who wanted him to become an informant for them. Fikre refused. A few months later, he was detained while in the UAE. Baumann reports that Fikre says he was beaten on the soles of his feet, kicked and punched, and held in stress positions. UAE security forces and the FBI agents who spoken to him in Sudan asked him similar questions, and Fikre says he thinks he saw a Westerner in the interrogation room with him. The UAE is a strong U.S. ally.
2. Raymond Azar: The case of a Lebanese contractor working in Afghanistan, first exposed by lawyer and writer Scott Horton, represented the first rendition of the Obama era. In September 2009, Horton wrote in the Huffington Post that Azar, working for a Lebanese contractor that did work for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, was seized by at least eight armed FBI agents.
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A US Citizen Tortured Abroad by the FBI? -- 5 Cases of Extreme US Govt. Inhumanity in the Obama Era (Original Post)
xchrom
Jun 2014
OP
According To This Judge, There Is NOTHING You Can Do, Except Maybe Change The Law...
WillyT
Jun 2014
#2
They can't get justice. Maybe they'll get revenge instead. Couldn't blame 'em.
Comrade Grumpy
Jun 2014
#3
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(255 posts)1. So, what do you propose we do about it?
WillyT
(72,631 posts)2. According To This Judge, There Is NOTHING You Can Do, Except Maybe Change The Law...
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, wrote in the decision, The facts alleged in this case and the legal questions presented are deeply troubling. But, he added, Although Congress has legislated with respect to detainee rights, it has provided no civil remedies for US citizens subject to the appalling mistreatment Mr. Meshal has alleged against officials of his own government.
DULink: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025114000
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)3. They can't get justice. Maybe they'll get revenge instead. Couldn't blame 'em.