UK: Two "terrorist" suspects freed by the court
01 January 2002
The courts have freed two "terrorist" suspects who were held in custody for months because of lack of evidence. Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian pilot settled in the UK for years, was freed by Belmarsh magistrates court because the US failed to produce any evidence to substantiate their claim that Raissi was a key suspect who trained the people involved in the 11 September attacks in the USA. Raissi was held for five month in the high-security Belmarsh prison. On 15 February Abdelghani Ait Haddad, an Algerian, was freed after the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, stopped the extradition case against him. Raissi had been held for three months in Belmarsh high security prison following a demand from Algeria that he be extradited on charges connected with a bombing at Algiers airport in 1992 which killed nine people.
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