Back from hell
Moazzam Begg will be home soon. He will soon be reunited with his wife and his four children, and the rest of his family. They fear that his ordeal will have broken him. They are almost frightened to see him. Lord knows what Moazzam feels. Relief? Fear that they will reject him? I hope he will find joy and become whole again.
He was welcomed into the UK by the police, who arrested him although he is not suspected of any crime, and will not be charged with one.
He has been imprisoned for three years, since he was snatched in Pakistan. He has been tortured, humiliated and degraded by the people who kidnapped him.
The people who took him are not like us. They do not believe in justice, the due process of law. They do not believe in human rights. We should not trust them.
We believe that even the worst must have the best from us. Even the worst must know the charges against them or be released. Even the worst must be ably defended against those charges. Even the worst is innocent until his or her peers find them guilty. This is our guarantee from the law we submit to.
We should not forget what happened to Moazzam, an innocent man, because men who do not respect our law, who knows what they might do?
posted by Dr Zen @ 9:35 am
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