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Save the Life of Mr J.Dhiab on Hunger Strike in Uruguay

Save the Life of Mr J.Dhiab on Hunger Strike in Uruguay

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This petition has been created by Aisha M. and may not represent the views of the Avaaz community.
Aisha M.
started this petition to
Dr. Tabare Vazquez President of Uruguay
Mr Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, held without charge or trial by the United States government at Guantánamo Bay for over 12 years and a Syrian refugee in your state since December 2014, has been on hunger strike since 12th August 2016.
Since that time he has refused to accept food, and from the 1st September 2016 he has refused to drink water.
He has been hospitalised at least two times since and has been in a coma. Mr Dhiab’s demand is simply to be reunited with his wife and children in Turkey where they too are refugees or any other country willing to accept them.
The Uruguayan government has promised on countless occasions to reunite Mr Dhiab with his family but
this has not happened, nor is he able, particularly given that he is disabled, to host them on his stipend which is due to run out in the coming months.
The Uruguayan government must take urgent measures
to reunite Mr Dhiab with his family in the country that Jihad Dhiab can be received, by offering him the means to reach there. The bars that prevent his reunification with his family are financial and diplomatic. By failing to assist Mr Dhiab in his right to reunification with his family, the Uruguayan government is complicit with the government of the United States in the ongoing breach of his human rights.
As you are aware the United States is currently trying to prevent Mr Dhiab from succeeding in a lawsuit to disclose the torture methods the United States used to attempt to dissuade his hunger strike there. There is undeniably political pressure on Mr Dhiab to give up his lawsuit by the United States. Such pressure on Mr Dhiab to forego his right to family life following over a decade of torture and abuse by the United States is no doubt a dimension of this pressure.
We urge you to end the persecution of Mr Dhiab and ask you and your government to take immediate steps to have him reunited with his family in a country that can offer the family reunification which is the only way to bring the current situation to an end .

El Sr. Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, detenido sin cargos ni juicio por el gobierno de los Estados Unidos en Guantánamo durante más de 12 años y refugiado sirio en el estado uruguayo desde diciembre de 2014, ha estado en huelga de hambre desde el 12 de agosto de 2016. Desde ese momento se ha negado a ingerir alimentos, y desde el 1 de septiembre del año 2016 se ha negado a beber agua. Ha sido hospitalizado al menos dos veces desde entonces y ha estado en coma. La demanda del Sr. Dhiab es simplemente poder reunirse con su esposa e hijos en Turquía, donde ellos también son refugiados o en cualquier otro país que esté dispuesto a otorgar los medios para que esto sea posible.
El gobierno uruguayo ha prometido en numerosas ocasiones reunir al Sr. Dhiab con su familia, pero esto no
ha sucedido, y el ademas considera que de llevarse a cabo , no contaria con los medios suficientes, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que él se encuentra desvalido, para alojar y alimentar a su familia ya que la ayuda economica otorgada por el estado uruguayo llegaria a su fin en los próximos meses.
El gobierno de Uruguay debe tomar medidas urgentes para reunir al Sr. Dhiab con su familia en un país que este
dispuesto a recibirlo, ofreciéndole ademas los medios para llegar allí. Las barreras que impiden la reunificación con su familia son de carácter financiero y diplomático. Al no ayudar al Sr. Dhiab en su derecho a la reunificación con su familia, el gobierno uruguayo es cómplice con el gobierno de los Estados Unidos en la violación permanente de sus derechos humanos.
Como todos sabemos el gobierno americano está tratando de evitar que el Sr. Dhiab tenga éxito en una demanda contra los Estados Unidos para que sean revelados los métodos de
tortura que estos aplicaron sobre Dhiab para obligarlo a finalizar numerosas huelgas de hambre llevadas a cabo por el en Guantanamo. Sin lugar a dudas existe una gran presión política por parte de los Estados Unidos para que Dhiab renuncie a su demanda contra el estado americano.
Tal presión se materializa entre otras cosas en impedir que el Sr. Dhiab pueda recuperar su derecho a la vida familiar tras más de una década de tortura y de abuso por parte de los Estados Unidos .
Le instamos a poner fin a la persecución del Sr. Dhiab y pedimos a usted y a su gobierno tomar medidas inmediatas para reunirlo con su familia en un país que pueda ofrecer las condiciones para la reunificación familiar, que es la única manera de llevar la situación actual a su fin.



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