#RabbaniRelease

Only three things are certain in life: Death, Taxes, and that when someone is released from 20 years of wrongful and torturous detention in Guantánamo Bay, the US will send him home with not so much as an apology.

3DC clients Ahmed and Abdul Rabbani have just been released from Guantánamo Bay and are finally with their families in Pakistan. Without a penny to their name and all that they've been through, Ahmed and Abdul will need all the help we can muster to fund their living costs as they begin to re-build their lives. It is not expensive compared to UK rates, but far beyond anything they can afford after losing 20 years. We need to raise what we can to help with their expenses during the next year.

Please give generously and help the Rabbani brothers rebuild their lives!

Neither Ahmed nor Abdul has ever been charged with anything. Both were kidnapped in Karachi, 1000 km from the Afghan war, and sold to the US for a bounty. Ahmed was said to be the notorious terrorist Hassan Ghul; he insisted from day one that he was a taxi driver. Nevertheless, they endured a year and a half being tortured in the Dark Prison in Kabul. 3DC director Clive Stafford Smith took his case on in 2005 and later discovered the US had captured Ghul and taken him to the same prison, but then set him free again. Ahmed and Abdul were rendered around the world to Guantánamo.

One human part of the tragedy: Ahmed’s wife was pregnant when he was snatched on September 10, 2002. Their son Jawad will soon be 20, and has never touched his Dad. We have separately been funding Jawad’s education and his ambition to become a human rights lawyer.

Clive will continue to aid other Guantánamo Bay detainees and will be seeking redress for injustices the Rabbani family have faced during the last 20 years.

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