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July 15, 2007

UK: Islamist Attacked In Prison

Dhiren Barot, the Indian-born British convert to Islam, was given a life sentence on November 7, 2006 for plotting attacks upon targets in the UK and the US. He also researched the possibility of creating a dirty bomb or radiological dispersion device (RDD). At Woolwich Crown Court, Mr Justice Butterfield recommended that he be given a minimum jail term of 40 years. However, that decision was appealed, and reduced to 30 years.

On June 15 this year, Barot's seven accomplices were given jail sentences for their part in assisting Barot. They comprised his "cell" and would have carried out his bomb attacks. Two of these had accompanied Barot to America in April 2001, to reconnoiter US targets, including the World Trade Center towers.

News from Focus news agency reveals that Barot's lawyer, Mudassar Arani has told Channel 4 News that Barot has been attacked with hot oil and water and is "scarred for life". Barot was scalded on his head and back, and has lost all the "hair on his head and he's got scarring all over his face up to his neck."

Miss Arani said: "He should have, and other Muslim prisoners should be, given differential treatment because they are subjected to differential treatment within the prison system."

Mudassar Arani has handled some controversial terrorist clients, including Abu Hamza and the four men convicted and given jail sentences last week for their attempts to bomb the London tube and a 26 bus in Hackney on 21/7, 2005.

Her company, Arani & Co, was criticized by Mr Justice Fulford QC, the judge who convicted the 21/7 would-be suicide bombers. Arani had handled the defense of Muktar Said Ibrahim and Yassin Omar. fulford condemned the way Arani & Co had made "wholly unjustified" complaints to Belmarsh Prison.

He said: "It has come to my attention that Arani & Co, the solicitors acting for Ibrahim and Omar, launched a relentless and blistering attack in the name of the defendants they represent on some of the staff at HMP Belmarsh. I consider these complaints ... to be wholly unjustified. The number of legal visits afforded to that firm has been a considerable amount. I wish to stress that in my judgment prison staff did all they could, indeed all they should, to facilitate a high number of visits by Arani & Co."

"I consider the complaints that I have seen, made against the staff of HMP Belmarsh, on the subject of inadequate pre-trial legal visits, some of which were expressed in extremely intemperate language, were no more than a smokescreen."

Additionally, Mr Justice Fulford QC maintained that during their trial, Arani's clients Muktar Ibrahim and Yassin Omar had "deliberately withheld" defense statements. He said that by withholding evidence until the last minute, the trial had lasted considerably longer than had been necessary.

In the trial, it was heard that Arani had sent 600 pounds ($1,200) in envelopes to one of the defendants, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, who now faces a retrial. The lawyer for Asiedu, Stephen Kamlish QC, said: "The most disgraceful and sinister act of all is sending him money which you may conclude was purely and simply a series of bribes to make Ismail feel their apparent kindness was enough to buy his silence."

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at July 15, 2007 5:11 PM

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