US attorneys letter on Gunatanamo Algerian detainee
Ech-Chorouk, on Tuesday, July 17
The family of Aziz Abdul Naji, an Algerian held in detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba has received a new letter about him sent by Ellen Lubell and Doris Tennant, two American attorneys who volunteered to represent Naji.
Aziz Abdul Naji has been detained in Guantanamo since May 2, 2002The attorneys said, in the letter; they met him on April 1, 2007.
They said they talked to him for hours and he seemed lovely and kind. Aziz Abdul Naji is in good health and hopes to see his family especially his mother and father. He also wants to receive letters from his family to learn about news, according to the letter.
Ellen Lubell and Doris Tennant volunteered to represent the Algerian detainee. “ As citizens and as lawyers, we have been profoundly disturbed by the reports of our government’s treatment of detainees at Guantanamo and the appalling lack of legal process afforded to them. Guantanamo has come to symbolize this country’s abandonment of international and domestic law”, they said.
Aziz Abdul Naji was detained in Pakistan over volunteer work in a charity association that offers food and clothes to poor Muslims in the region. He was picked up in Kashmir, the victim of a land mine explosion that cost him one leg.
He told his mother in his last call that he was arranging things to get married with an Egyptian woman living in Pakistan.
Naji’s family thought he died or was killed till a Sudanese held in detention at Gunatanamo informed the family that he was in the same detention.
