Rights Group Accuses Kenya Of Secretly Extraditing WC Bomb Suspects

Bucharest, Romania (AHN) - Kenya's Muslim Human Rights Forum accused the Kenyan government of violating the country’s law after it secretly deported terror suspects to Uganda after last month’s attack on World Cup viewers in the Ugandan capital of Kampala.

Al-Amin Kimathi, the chairman of the group claimed that the FBI illegally questioned three of the suspects – a charge the U.S. embassy denied and said Washington was only assisting in the investigation.

It also did not comments on the FBI role in the matter.

Authorities arrested four suspects from different parts of Kenya just days after Uganda’s twin bomb blasts, which killed more than 70 people and made international headlines.

A Somali Islamic group, Al-Shabab, claimed the responsibility for the attack and pledged to continue such attacks in opposition to Uganda's troops’ assistance to Somalia under the African Union's mission to help its besieged government.

Uganda's chief prosecutor had charged 32 people, including nationals from Kenya, Uganda, Somalia and Pakistan, this week in connection with the attacks.

Representative of Kenyan suspects' families, Mbugua Mureithi, expressed surprise why the Uganda government did not make any formal request for the extradition of four nationals.

The incident came nearly three years after the Kenya's government deported terror suspects linked to Islamic Somali militia to Somalia.

U.S. agents illegally questioned them when they flew to Ethiopia and were released a year later. The case is popularly known as "Africa's Guantanamo".


(2010-08-20/allheadlinenews)