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Article: Is SA selling out to appease the US?ahmed c motala; If Khalid Rashid has been handed over to Americans, we have contravened constitutional and international laws.(News)
- Article from:
- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2006
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The debate around the deportation and whereabouts of Khalid Rashid has ignored an important issue. South African authorities may be complacent in the torture of those suspected or involvement in terrorism.
South Africa has deported foreigners to countries that are known to systematically practise torture, where opponents of the government and terror suspects are known to have "disappeared".
The most recent annual report of Amnesty International reflects that Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan, countries to which foreigners have been deported from SA, are accused of practising systematic torture and of causing the "disappearance" of suspects arrested on ...