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Shawki Ahmed Omar &

Shawki Ahmed Omar &. Narmeen Saleh Al Rubaye. SHAWKI & NARMEEN.

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Shawki Ahmed Omar &

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  1. Shawki Ahmed Omar & NarmeenSaleh Al Rubaye

  2. SHAWKI & NARMEEN • Both arrested after a violent house raid with dogs, on an engagement party at Narmeen’s uncle’s house in Zeyouna district of Baghdad, at around 22:00 on 29th October 2004. Shawki (44) was severely beaten with the butt of their guns and Narmeen (17) was knocked over the head and a dog was let loose on her.

  3. SHAWKI & NARMEEN • Naemeen:”the raid lasted four hours, they were beating my husband continuously, all men in the house were arrested that night and all money and jewellery were stolen, including jewellery worn by the women”

  4. Shawki & Narmeen • Narmeen: “ On the way to the detention centre I was told I would better confess or else I will be raped. My bare cell was 1mx1m, the walls and the ceilings were all black. The light bulb was red, switched on all the time. My hands were tied behind my back all the time. The door of the cell would be flung open and cold water would be thrown at me and flood the cell, I was forced into a squatting position for hours on end inside my cell and deprived of sleep”.

  5. SHAWKI & NARMEEN Narmeen : “I spent sixteen days in prison. During that time the interrogations didn't stop for one minute. The investigators were coming in one after the other. They tried in every way to make me say what they wanted me to say. They used cursing and bad language to humiliate me. Other times they used beatings and electricity. They threw cold water on me, and again threatened to rape me if I didn't confess to what they wanted me to say. “

  6. SHAWKI & NARMEEN • Narmeen: “they told me they would send me to Abu Ghraib and do to me what they did to the people there. they said they would take me to rape me there. I did not know where I was, I found out later it was the notorious secret prison of Camp Naama . They tortured and beat me a lot, and when they found out that I was pregnant they told me they would kill the baby in my womb. They then concentrated their beating and electricity on my abdomen area.”

  7. SHAWKI & NARMEEN • Narmeen :”On three occasions they took me to my husband and threatened to rape me in front of him if he didn't confess. They kept telling him they would rape his nine year old son (Salah) in front of him. They put electricity on his genitals. They kept trying to make me take a pill, I didn't know what it was, so I refused.. They forced me to take it. After 16 days they dropped me off on a street, I had no idea where.”

  8. NARMEEN SALEH AL RUBAYE • Narmeen :” After I got out I went to a specialist doctor, told her about the electric shocks and the beatings on my stomach. The doctor gave me a report and told me for sure that I wouldn't have a normal child. Now my daughter is 8 years old. She has cerebral palsy. The reason is because of the torture she endured in the womb. She has never seen my father”

  9. SHAWKI AHMED OMAR Narmeen:”I didn't hear anything about my husband for a few months, until I got a letter through the Red Cross telling me that he was in solitary confinement at Camp Bucca, in Basra. Basra is 7 hours away by car from Baghdad. I would make appointments to visit my husband, go all that way, then they would refuse to let me see him. This happened several times. My daughter was only a few months old then”.

  10. SHAWKI AHMED OMAR • Narmeen:”I found out from my husband that he was kept in solitary confinement for 9 months, he was still being tortured and threatened that they would rape me, not knowing that I have been released”. Narmeen left Iraq to Sweden in 2006. Shawki was still held without charge or trial but considered to be a ‘security detainee’ just like Guantnamo inmates.

  11. SHAWKI AHMED OMAR • Omar was moved to Abu Ghraib prison on 24/01/2006 briefly and by early February, he was already in Cropper Camp (now called Alkarkh maximum security prison). • Two prisoners were tortured into making false statements against Shawki linking him to Abu Musaab Al Zarqawi. However one of them Mahmoud Al Hamawie produced an affidavit once back in Jordan, retracting his statement. He was told by his US interrogators: the only out of the torture chamber to sign a confession they dictated to him.

  12. SHAWKI AHMED OMAR • “Omar was never charged by the United States, which instead sought to have his case transferred to the Iraqi courts. Given the very real risk of torture if he was handed over to the Iraqi authorities, his family filed a successful motion to have his transfer suspended by the US courts. In 2008, in a case combined with that of another prisoner, he won an important ruling when the US Supreme Court ruled that American citizens held abroad by a multinational force could challenge their detention in US courts through a writ of habeas corpus. US courts, however, cannot prevent their handover to a foreign jurisdiction. In July 2011, he lost his habeas case in the US Court of Appeals, as the court accepted US government assurances that he would not be "likely to be tortured if transferred to Iraqi custody." A week later, on July 15, 2011, he was handed over to the Iraqi authorities, under whose control he remains.”

  13. “Classified an "enemy combatant" and accused of involvement in terrorism by the US in 2005, it was years before Shawki Omar’s case was even referred for trial. In 2010, he was served notice of a court appearance without any charges listed; the hearing scheduled for July was then changed to June without his lawyer being informed. He thus appeared in court without legal representation or any paperwork. Once there, he discovered that the charges against him, for which he was given a 15-year conviction, were related to illegal entry to the country. This was the first time he had heard about this; his identity documents were confiscated when he was arrested in 2004 and have never been returned. Following an appeal by his lawyers, in February 2011, the Iraqi Supreme Court reduced the sentence to 7 years. Throughout this period, he continued to be held in US custody.”

  14. http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/download_file_34650.pdfhttp://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/download_file_34650.pdf

  15. http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/D6A4ACB2E84E11FC852578C70051B195/$file/09-5410.pdfhttp://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/D6A4ACB2E84E11FC852578C70051B195/$file/09-5410.pdf

  16. Some of the Photos of Shawki submitted to US Court

  17. Some of the Photos of Shawkisubimtted to US Court

  18. Some of the photos of Shawki submitted to US court dated 10/07/2005

  19. UPDATE on SHAWKI Shawki was/is singled out for mal treatment because he is Palestinian, and Sunni . This is on top of the general growing abuse of prisoners at Al Karkh. Shawki had in fact completed his 7-year sentence two years earlier, Shawki Omar went on hunger strike on February 4, 2013till the beginning of August 2013. Shawki is not allowed his own medication or access to medical care . he suffers with stomach ulcers, digestive problems, hypertension and prostate problems. Narmeen heard that Shawki has been transferred to Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment is not any better. Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of Shawki Ahmed Omar in accordance with Article 295 of the Iraqi Criminal Procedure Code as he has already served his sentence.

  20. Certified Retraction of MahmoudSalah Mohamed Al Hamawie • I, MahmoudSalah Mohamed Al Hamawie Jordanian id card no : 10623535 hereby declare that the forced confession (dictated to me by the US interrogators) I made to the Central Investigative Court in Baghdad against Shawki Ahmed Omar is false and baseless. I was coerced into making that confession as was Hussain Abdul Rahman Al Dulaimy (neither of us knew Shawki), with promises of being released if we did so. They told us: “say Shawki Ahmed SHARIF committed crimes and we will release you”.

  21. References Camp Naama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/01/camp-nama-iraq-human-rights-abusestheguardian.com, Monday 1 April 2013 18.04 BST http://onesmallwindow.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/starved-of-justice-in-iraq-american-prisoner-on-hunger-strike/ http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19220-nine-years-of-injustice-for-american-prisoner-in-iraq http://www.popularresistance.org/american-prisoner-marks-ninth-year-in-iraqi-jail/http://amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE14/018/2013/en/be34033a-049b-4e82-a281-f94957fa852b/mde140182013en.html

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