Garaad Xassen Axmed Makhtal Succumbed to injuries sustained while in prison

[Abtigiis]

May Allah grant his mercy to the Garaad. Inaalilaahi wa inaa ilaahi raajicuun.

 

Garaad Xassebn Axmed Makhtal, grandson of the legendary Makhtal Dahir, passed away yesterday in Addis Ababa after nurrsing several injuries inflicted on him during his prolonged detention in Jigjiga jee-oga.deen prison.

 

Garaad Xassen was subjected to cruel physical abuse, which made the Ethiopian Doctors who were treating him in Addis vomit in disgust. His only crime was that he is the brother of the other detained Somali-born Canadian citizen, Bashir Axmed Makhtal.

 

Xasan Axmed Makhtal waxaa dishay isaga iyo boqolaal la mid ah gacan ka xaq daran, ilaahay isaga iyo intii dhimatayba haw naxariisto. Inta jeelasha ka buuxdana ha ka soo fur-furo gacanta cadowga Aamiin Aamiin.

 

We share the grief and pain with his immediaite families and with the oppressed somali people in Somaligalbeed.

[Kamaavi]

Innaa Lillaahi Wa Innaa Illaahi Raajicuun

 

Allah Janadii ha ka waraabsho Garaad Hassen, and may Allah grant samir iyo iimaan to his family, sons, daughters iyo qaraabadiisa oo dhan

 

Amiin

[Abwaan]

Allaah ha u naxariisto, eheladiisana samir iyo iimaan haka siiyo.

[Che -Guevara]

^Aamin.

[xiinfaniin]

Allow u naxariiso

[Cabdow]

^ Ameen

 

Inna Lilaahi Wa Inna Ileyhi Rajicuun! Garaadka Allaha u'naxriisto as well as Mujaahidiintii ku Shahiiday in the recent Eebo-Cadow operation!

[Kamaavi]

aamiin

[rudy-Diiriye]

i knew one guy from this family, may allah give him peace in heaven. amiin

[ADNAAN]

Allah ha u naxriisto, waa mujaahid walee

[General Duke]

Allah ha u naxariisto

[Abtigiis]

ETHIOPIA: HASSAN AHMED MAKHTAL: LATEST VICTIM OF INSTITUTIONALISED TORTURE11/13/09

 

****** Human Rights Committee - PRESS RELEASE

Date: 14th November 2009 Ref: OHRC/PR02/1109

ETHIOPIA: HASSAN AHMED MAKHTAL: LATEST VICTIM OF INSTITUTIONALISED TORTURE

Article 2 of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment states that: "Each State party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture." Common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 prohibits torture during internal armed conflict. States are also required to bring those responsible for torture to justice and to give redress and compensation to those who have been tortured.

Article 18(1) of the Ethiopian Constitution states that: “No person shall be subject to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”

However, in the ******, there is neither arrest nor interrogation without torture. Usually, Ethiopian armed and security forces systematically torture detainees to extract confessions or information under duress. A number of people were tortured to death. The OHRC has examined a large number of torture survivors; some of them were disabled, while others bore scars of torture on their bodies.

The latest victim of Ethiopian government’s institutionalized torture was Hassan Ahmed Makhtal who died from wounds sustained during his detention.

On May 17th 2007, in Jigjiga, Ethiopian security forces and the local police arrested Hassan Ahmed Makhtal and a number of his relatives from their residences in the dead of night. And then they were transferred to Garabcase military barracks and Jigjiga Police Centre. According to ex-jail mates and relatives’ accounts they have undergone severe physical and psychological torture. Hassan, who was in a poor state of health, was denied adequate medical treatment while he was in detention. (See ******: Ethiopian Government Forces: Massacre, displace and starve out the civilian population with impunity ref: OHRC/AR/07).

Recently, after 22 months of detention without official charges or trial he was released on bail, and was not allowed to travel abroad for medical treatment.

Hassan’s younger brother Bashir Ahmed Makhtal who is a prominent Canadian businessman, and originates from the ****** region, is now serving a life sentence in an Ethiopian jail. He was accused of being a member of the ****** National Liberation Front. (Bashir Ahmed Makhtal: Addis Ababa Court’s Sentence: A Miscarriage of Justice ref: OHRC /PRAU/1209).

Since the arrest of his Canadian brother, the Ethiopian government has hunted down all members of his extended family without an apparent reason.

The ****** Human Rights Committee is concerned about the safety and well-being of the remaining members of Hassan Ahmed Makhtal’s extended family, who are in detention and asks for their unconditional and immediate release.

The ****** Human Rights Committee condemns Ethiopian government’s policy of subjecting detainees to torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

****** Human Rights Committee

www.******rights.org

E-mail: ohrc@******rights.org

[The Zack]

May he rest in peace.

[MAXIMUS POWERS]

Innaa Lillaahi Wa Innaa Illaahi Raajicuun

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

ilahay ha uu naxaristo ninkan ehel baanu ahayn

jannada ka ka waraabiyo

[Jacaylbaro]

Allah ha u naxariisto ..........