Under House Arrest; 'No Place Like Home' - Featured on Newsnight

Last night, for the first time ever, the British public were allowed to look behind the curtain of the government’s controversial control orders. Hussain Alsamamara has been held without trial or charge for four years. He and his young family are locked up for twenty hours a day, their house is bugged by the home office and they are subject to police raids at any time of the day or night. Neither he nor his lawyer have ever seen the evidence against him.

In allowing cameras back into his house, Hussain is risking re-imprisonment in high security prison to tell his story.

Today he is in the court of appeal fighting the government’s decision to try and deport him back to Jordan where he faces imprisonment, torture and possibly, death.
Broadcast on Newsnight last night, No Place Like Home challenges the government to put a stop to this suburban Guantanamo and to ensure that a fair trial is a right reserved for all. It asks the question, how, in twenty-first century Britain, do we have detention without trial or charge?

Over one million viewers watched the half hour broadcast – watch it now on BBC iplayer;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00st267/Newsnight_16_06_2010/

The piece has already got press in the Guardian and is a huge challenge to the fledgling coalition. The Liberal Democrats are on record as calling detention without trial an "affront to our justice system".

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