Free Jack Letts

In UK & Canada, the beautiful simplicity of Bertrand Russell's statement on nationalism can be extended even further - ie a person who is perceived to be against nationalism in his own country is judged to be the worst type of enemy - ie the enemy within - and against him or her the worst form of atrocity and vileness can be legimately practised One only needs to look at the mindset of mainstream @BBC presenter, Stacey Dooley, who, on her exit from the Syrian camp where 1000s of women & kids are imprisoned, shrieked, 'You turned your back on democracy!', as the huge metal gates closed against the bemused faces of 100s of small, bedraggled children Those children are still there, 7-9 years on - still imprisoned as the offspring of those perceived to be the enemies of 'British values' - as if British values means imprisoning children and women, because, well, we don't like them very much and, as Bertrand Russell says, being proud of your country means you can legitimately practice vileness and atrocity against your enemies I speak to the mothers of these children. They, too, are bemused, despairing, depressed, angry, fearful, stagnating, forgotten. Their fate is in the hands of those who hate them. Where are our public intellectuals who say this is wrong? The Bertrand Russell's of our time? What explains the silence of the left, so preoccupied with the oppression in other parts of the world that it has no time to see the despair of its own people. imprisoned abroad bc countries like UK and Canada believe this is the most convenient place to dump our enemy within? @DalrympleWill @CraigMurrayOrg @owenjonesjourno I don't even know who to tag any more as this atrocious and vile situation has gone on for so long & most of my tags usually fall on very stoney ground. However, here's an attempt: @profbensaul @USAMBTurkiye @hind_kabawat @asaadhshaibani @lloydaxworthy @MargaretAtwood

Le's face it - international law died a long time ago. Why have at least 9 Canadian men been held in Kurdish dungeons for 10 years, with no light, no fresh air, beaten, starved, denied access to lawyers, families, doctors, Red Cross, or outside world, not to mention being detained where medical murder takes place - ie deliberate infection of prisoners with TB, from which 1000s have died. All with the blessing of the Canadian government, particularly @melaniejoly, who is an enthusiastic supporter of such torture - quoted on tape if any journalists are interested. (Of course they're not. ) When condemned by the UN, Canada replied that the 'UN is merely an advisory body'.

share.google/FgRCOMYApb6jVrh… Iraqi investigators say that Australian Yusuf Zahab - taken to Syria at age 12 & imprisoned for years in SDF adult prison - is completely innocent Yusuf has spent 7 years in barbaric prison conditions as IS suspect, despite being a civilian and with Iraqi investigators finding he had no involvement with ISIS How many more detainees are completely innocent while being labelled as IS monsters? Former Cdn Foreign Minister @melaniejoly said such arbitrary detention in barbaric conditions is 'what you get when you join ISIS' - even when there is no evidence detainees joined ISIS This is the SDF 'justice system' Canada has been so supportive of, it went to court to KEEP CANADIAN CITIZENS INCARCERATED in SDF's inhuman prisons Is this what @MarkJCarney means by 'upholding human dignity & the rule of law'? When will our brave PM walk the walk instead of just talking the talk? @AnitaAnandMP @lloydaxworthy @AmnestyNow @RenaNetjes @MarkKersten @AlboMP

Iraqis have taken on a MASSIVE task with 5600 detainees from NE Syria; we can help the 67 countries to do their part-take them for trial at home if you want/identify the innocent. UNICEF says there are nearly 1500 who were juveniles when the Kurds detained them in Syria...

Iraqis have taken on a MASSIVE task with 5600 detainees from NE Syria; we can help the 67 countries to do their part-take them for trial at home if you want/identify the innocent. UNICEF says there are nearly 1500 who were juveniles when the Kurds detained them in Syria...

Fine words, @MarkJCarney, well done. However, why are 12 uncharged Canadian men, women, child detainees still held in brutal arbitrary detention in Syria & Iraq (with their conditions described in horrifying detail in 289-page @amnesty report), & why did Canadian government go to court in order to KEEP THEM THERE?

We, too, protested for 10 years about the arbitrary arrests by SDF & long-term illegal detention of those who never faced charges, trial, presentation before a judge, or access to a lawyer. The only two voices of the press that reported publicly about the unlawfulness of this were yours & Rena Netjes - and your voices were drowned out by the millions of voices, as led by US, that protected & promoted the decade-long scandal of the brutal imprisonment of uncharged people. It has to be said that even al-Monitor never inserted the little word 'alleged' before 'IS fighters' - even when there was no evidence that many of them had ever been IS fighters. SDF atrocities were protected & ignored by US for political expediency reasons. The evidence of a Canadian court that the Canadian government had never received any evidence of criminal activity of any of the Canadian men in captivity was ignored by all media, domestically & internationally. The facts coming out now that SDF imprisoned innocent people for years based on settling political scores will similarly be ignored. The innocent detainees who were deliberately cruelly treated as a matter of US/SDF policy will face life-long physical & mental damage. Yes, people should have listened to you years ago & they didn't, and that is to the eternal shame of the international community who could have stopped this unlawful cruelty 10 years ago and chose not to