Fear for safety/Fear of torture or other ill-treatment

ALGERIA

Rabah Kadri (m), Algerian national

(This was a recent action that took place, so I thought I would post it on the Blog for everyone to see that these actions are a very important source of activism. Keep up the good work guys!)

Rabah Kadri was released without charge on 27 April, at about 1pm.
He had been held incommunicado for 12 days. He was able to go to
his parents, who live in Algiers, and is staying with them. He is
no longer at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.

He was detained by plainclothes security officers on 16 April,
when he arrived in Algiers after being deported from France.. He
did not know where he was held; he is believed to have been in the
custody of the intelligence agency Department for Information and
Security (Departement du renseignement et de la securite, DRS) in
one of the unofficial detention centres they operate in Algiers.

Rabah Kadri told Amnesty International that he was treated
humanely. He was interrogated about the activities which had led
to his conviction and prison sentence in France. He also said that
he was asked to sign a statement saying that he had been treated
well before he was released. People who have just been released by
the DRS are very cautious when speaking about how they have been
treated, in case any criticism of the authorities leads to
repercussions.

Fantastic news that he is free, and that Amnesty can investigate his treatment whilst being detained.

So we had our AGM and amongst other things we elected our new committee! Click the jump to see who they are and read the minutes.

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Ceilidh
 - Star meeting Monday 6.30
- Sinead and possibly Jonny to go
- Ceilidh planned for March/mid Feb?

Film night
- problem with Boyd Orr?
- Rachel to srot out

Speakers
- SVAW plus one other
- SVAW for valentines?

Ethical investments
- Speaker?
- public declaration of interest?

Raise off - Helen to look at Raise off financing stuff.

Website - Robert to change members

New Internationalist - ?promotion

GUU - possibility of affiliation

Stall for Wednesday

- MP/MSP action letter
- Sinead will look up MSPs for Glasgow
- Sinead also will look up anti-terrorist legislation
- Dawn will bring camera

Star

- Jonny will go to meeting to contact them.

Radio Show

- Dawn, Jonny and Sinead to go.

Raise off

- Rachel to coordinate project
- Sleepout (sell sandwiches out of bins?)
- QM - hijack Cheesy Pop on 11th Jan for Guantànamo
- Glaswegian celebrity?

Greetings cards

- Saturday afternoon in Qudos?

Dawn is stepping down as president. Sinead will take over until we can hold an EGM in January.

Unsubscribe

- stall on Wednesday 5th.
- setup - Helen H, Dawn, Sinead
- Sandwich boards for photos
- Dawn to find out what we do with the photos afterwards
- sweets/food?
- Unsubscribe workshop for next week’s meeting.

Ceilidh

- Helen H to contact Star
- Venue - union? bar money? talk to QMU.
- Band - Dawn to email Andrew. Everyone to ask around.

Speakers

- Emma to contact Falun Gong lady - get details from Helen S
- China exhibition, irrepressible.

Publicity

- “breaking news” on gla.ac.uk
- Subcity radio - Dawn to find out.

Other

- discussion about responsible campaigning next week or week after.

Minutes from committee meeting Wednesday 7/11/07

- Word AIDS day – GUCU event.

- School group

o Anyone interested in starting it up?

o EMMA to find email and contact them.

- Human Rights Day – what shall we do?

- Comedy night

o Who’s coming?

o EMMA to send out via mailing list

Website

- ROBERT to look at options for improved mailing list and possibly a committee blog

- EMMA to email SRC about server information.

JONNY to email mailing list about new Amnesty report

HELEN to update Google Calendar with World AIDS day, Human Rights Day, etc.

Minutes from committee meeting Wednesday 7/11/07

Student conference:

- Tickets to be booked by individuals asap

- How many are going?

DAWN to find diamond trade leaflets

Events:

- RACHEL to speak to QMU about open mic night at end of Nov/early Dec. Possibility of having an actual band at the end?

- Comedy night – numbers

- Reclaim the Night march

- Speakers – Burma? Email and ask.

- Social or events convenor? – does this involve a change to the constitution?

Meeting:

- EMMA to talk about ethical investment

- Campaigns in a hat – conflict diamond trade, control arms, child soldiers

- Discussion in groups and an idea for an awareness event

- Discuss possible unsubscribe stall outside QMU.

Guardian article

- DAWN to find stats about petitions etc

- EMMA to email Guardian.