Save Abdel Al-Ghazzawi!

To:  Honorable Justice John D, Bates

PETITION ON BEHALF OF ABDEL AL-GHIZZAWI

The Honorable John D. Bates
United States District Court Judge
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, Northwest
Washington, DC 20001



To: Honorable John D. Bates,
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia


Dear Judge Bates,

We are writing to express our deep concern over the deteriorating medical condition of a prisoner in US custody at Guantanamo Naval Base.

Abdel Al-Ghizzawi suffers from tuberculosis, hepatitis B and liver damage. This fact has been known to our Government--his captors--for over a year, yet he has not been given proper medical treatment for his ailments. Instead, our government has deliberately chosen to give out false information about the medical condition of this man.

THIS CONSTITUTES CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT.

Abdel al-Ghizzawi is no "enemy combatant." He was surrendered to US custody in Afghanistan by bounty hunters, and has never been tried or convicted in any court of law of any crimes against the US or anyone else either in Afghanistan or in the United States.

HIS INCARCERATION IS AGAINST ALL INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STANDARDS, AS PROMULGATED IN THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS, TO WHICH OUR NATION IS SIGNATORY.

The lack of medical care for Al-Ghizzawi is a death sentence on this unjustly imprisoned man.

As US citizens and citizens of the world, we are outraged and ashamed at his treatment and the treatment of other prisoners like him at Guantanamo, Bagram and secret US government sites throughout the "Free World."

Our government is no longer a government of laws.

"We the People" petition you for redress of this terrible grievance against a creature of God. How can our country pretend to advance the cause of democracy when we treat people who fall into our hands with such cruelty? We are appalled that these crimes against humanity are being carried out in our name, and distraught that our nation appears before the whole world as a nation of WAR CRIMINALS.

Sincerely,

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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