WASHINGTON, Nov 3: Amnesty International launched a global appeal on Thursday after Pakistan arrested a freed Guantanamo prisoner after he wrote a book on his experience at controversial US detention facility.
The group sent an “urgent action appeal” to its 1.3 million members worldwide to lobby governments and leaders, and press for the release of Abdur Rahim Muslim Dost, an Afghan national, poet and magazine editor. “We are expressing concern and fears for his safety and calling on authorities to reveal where he is being held,” said T. Kumar, Amnesty’s Washington-based Asia-Pacific advocacy director.—AFP
