Justice for Dr Batarfi

Published by Dr David Nicholl on Jun 19, 2008

We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens and healthcare workers who wish to protest regarding the ongoing detention without charge for over 6 years in US custody of Dr Ayman Saeed Bartarfi.

Dr Batarfi is a 37 year old Yemeni orthopaedic surgeon currently held in Guantanamo Bay whose only crime would appear to be trying to treat civilian casualties in a war zone.

After his post-graduate studies in Pakistan, and inspired by the Afghan trauma victims he had dealt with, he decided to work for a non-governmental organisation to renovate a hospital in Kabul in spring 2001. With the chaos after the onset of the Afghan conflict in late 2001, he was "sold" to the US military by the Northern Alliance.

Since then he has never been held charged with a crime, he has never had a trial and there are very real concerns about his own health, given his uncertain plight.

We call on the US authorities to either charge Dr Batarfi and give him a fair trial, or release him forthwith.

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