Pour agir :

Dear Mr President,
Dear Attorney General,

I am writing to you regarding the case of Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani national who has been detained in Guantánamo since September 2004. Mr Paracha was arrested on arrival at Bangkok in Thailand where he was due to attend a business meeting.

After a few days spent at an unknown location, he was later transferred by the US authorities to Bagram, Afghanistan and finally to Guantánamo a year later. Saifullah Paracha has a history of health problems, including having suffered a heart attack in 1995 and he is believed to have suffered a second heart attack whilst in US detention at Bagram in 2003.

Saifullah Paracha should be released from Guantánamo unless charged with recognisable offences. If charged, he must be tried in accordance with international standards of fairness in an ordinary court ­ not a military commission.

Furthermore I call on the US authorities to either release the detainees held at Guantánamo Bay or charge and try them in ordinary civilian courts in
full accordance with international standards, without recourse to the death
penalty.

I thank you for reading this letter and hope that you will give it your utmost consideration.

Yours sincerely,

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