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Today, the New York Times' top editorial was a strong rebuke to the Obama administration for forceably sending a man from Guantanamo to his native Algeria, where he feared he would be tortured and persecuted:
Fear of Freedom
New York Times / July 24, 2010
A prisoner who begs to stay indefinitely at theGuantánamo Bay detention center rather than be sent back toprobably has a strong reason to fear the welcoming reception at home. Algeria
Abdul Aziz Naji, who has been held at Guantánamo since 2002, told the Obama administration that he would be tortured if he was transferred to
, by either the Algerian government or fundamentalist groups there. Though he offered to remain at the prison, the administration shipped him home last weekend and washed its hands of the man. Almost immediately upon arrival, he disappeared, and his family fears the worst. Algeria
It is an act of cruelty that seems to defy explanation.
Read the entire editorial here.
Write to the Algerian embassy to demand the Algerian government account for Mr. Naji's whereabouts here.
Read CCR's earlier statements here and here.
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