Argus title : Hypocrisy prolongs jail agony
Omar Deghayes, a Libyan born refugee to Britain, is imprisoned in the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. He has been convicted of no crime, but has been held there for 4 years without being brought to trial.
Omar’s father was a trade unionist who was jailed, tortured and assassinated by the Libyan regime in 1980. Now his son is illegally imprisoned and subject to repeated torture by US security personnel. His family has not had news of him for months. Even his lawyer has not been able to see him.
Omar lived in Brighton for 20 years. He wasn’t born in the city, but often visited as a child. After his father’s murder he and his family fled to the UK, where their claim for asylum was accepted. Omar settled in Saltdean, attended a local school and later university where he studied Law. Continue reading