Two letters

A letter of thanks to CAMPACC supporters from a victim of internment under the Anti Terrorist, Crime and Security Act 2001

I thank from the bottom of my heart.

I use to be a detainee at Belmarch Prison 2001. After I left to Morocco where I live with my mother and sister in Tangier. I want to thank you and all them good people out there . I'm still following my case with Gareth Pierce the lawyer. Before I use to translate for her client. After Mr Blunket said I was a terror I had to be in prison ......long lives the lords. It is history written with golden ink for the British people. It is not the detainees who won. But the British people has won this is the best Christmas present for the British people for generation to come. They will proud to remember 16-12-2001. I personally have nothing against security because I used to be one my self. But if there is any evidence they should bring it forward and do justice with it. A great country as great Britain should not have the law of the jungle. It deserves better. I lived in the UK for 16 years and the British people made feel like one of them. Why should any body think  want to kill them.

Many thanks again.

A letter from the detainees in The Guardian, 26 Feb 04
We were arrested in December 2001 and taken straight to Belmarsh prison. We know that the police in this country have enormous powers to investigate suspected terrorists. Why did no one ever speak to us? Why were we never asked a single question before being locked up as terrorists? We have never had a trial. We were found guilty without one. We are imprisoned indefinitely and probably forever. We have no idea why. We have not been told what the evidence is against us. We are here. Speak to us. Listen to us. Tell us what you think and why. If you did, you would no longer believe we were a threat to this country. You would think perhaps that there was not the emergency you have imagined here. Everyone is giving their opinion about us. Why not think of coming to us first, rather than locking us up and never speaking to us?

The Forgotten Detainees, Belmarsh prison