On 12/08/2005, their brother Jamal al-Jadhran (born 1968) was detained under the same conditions by the Internal Security, who descended upon their house looking for their other brother, Salim, who was abroad at the time.  On 16/08/2005, their brother Muftah al-Jadhran (born 1973) and his cousin Ali as-Sanusi al-Jadhran (born 1978), were arrested and tortured in an unknown place, then the three of them were moved to Abu Sleim prison in Tripoli.  As a result of the torture he underwent, Muftah al-Jadhran became handicapped and unable to move.

From that date on, the Internal Security forces kept raiding the Jadhran family house time after time looking for their son Salim al-Jadhran, and did not rest until he was handed over to them by the Nigerois authorities on 24/03/2006. Since that date, his family has known nothing about his fate; today he is numbered among the disappeared.

The Jadhran family was not even informed until recently of the location of their four sons and their cousin, in Abu Sleim prison in Tripoli, where hundreds of prisoners of opinion and political prisoners languish.  In late August 2006 the exceptional court sentenced them to various sentences: life imprisonment for Ibrahim and Usamah, 10 years each for Muftah and Jamal, and 2 years each for Ali as-Sanusi.  It charged them with “ties with the opposition abroad.”

Alkarama, faced with the shameful violation of its six clients’ rights, considers that Messrs. Ibrahim, Usamah, Jamal, Muftah, and Ali as-Sanusi Jadhran were not  informed of the cause of the arrest, were not presented with any charges in their trial, were not permitted to defend themselves or to challenge the judgment, and were all tortured severely.  As for Salim al-Jadhran, he was disappeared forcibly, and was last seen in as-Sikka prison on 25/03/2006; since that date, his family has heard nothing about him.

Alkarama considers these to be numerous and repeated blatant violations by the Libyan authorities of many articles and clauses of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which Libya ratified on 15/05/1970 and of the Convention against Torture which it ratified on 16/05/1989, and has called upon the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Working Group on Enforced Disappearance, and the Special Rapporteur on Torture, each according to its specialty, to put an end to this family’s suffering in the near future and call on the Libyan authorities to honour their international obligations.

Alkarama
Geneva 12/07/2007