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In Somalia: Somali military officers.
Site(s) of detention, including sites of possible transit
1. Military police station located near Kiunga, Kenya (20 to 21 January 2007)
2. 3 different police stations, all located in Nairobi, Kenya (21 January - approximately 6
February 2007)
3. Army base in Baidoa, Somalia (approximately 6 - 10 February 2007)
Total period of detention
Approximately three weeks (20 January - 10 February 2007)
Duration of secret detention
Entire period of detention
Conditions and treatment during secret detention
- Military police station located near Kiunga, Kenya: Detained one night. He was interrogated
by around 7 or 8 people in civilian clothes and threatened to be handed to the Ethiopians or the
Somali militia.
- Transfer to Kenya (by helicopter and jet): Blindfolded and handcuffed. Soldiers told
Mr. Ezzoueck that he was going to be executed.
- 3 Police stations in Nairobi, Kenya: In the first police station, he was detained with another 5
detainees in a cell of about 4x3 feet with no light, which became very cold at night. The cell
was dirty, they were not allowed to clean it, and they had to use a bucket as a toilet. The first
days he was interrogated in the same building by a Kenyan Army Major and Kenyan
Intelligence Service officers about his life, the Nairobi bombings and his links with terrorist
organizations. In the second police station, he was interrogated by people who identified
themselves as FBI officers about his links with Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups. During
this period, he was taken several times to a central hotel where he was interrogated by people,
who identified themselves as UK Security Services officers, about his links to terrorist attacks
or terrorist groups. The third police station was located at the Nairobi airport and he stayed
there for a few days. During this last period, he was not interrogated and he was told that he
was being sent back to London. Moreover, Mr. Ezzoueck was told that British officers from
the Consulate tried to see him at this place, but they were told that Mr. Ezzoueck was being
detained at another police station.
- Transfer to Somalia: Blindfolded and handcuffed.
- Army base in Baidoa, Somalia: Placed with 13 other detainees in a dirty underground cell
with no light and with bottles to be used as toilettes. He remained there for a few days always
handcuffed. At this place, he was not interrogated nor ill-treated. He could see Somali and
Ethiopian military officers through a hole on the wall. At this place, he was approached by an
official of the British Consulate who told Mr. Ezzoueck that he had been trying to find him for
a few days and that Mr. Ezzoueck was flying back to London via Nairobi.
- Transfer to London (with change of plane in Nairobi): The first part of the trip he was
blindfolded and handcuffed by request of Somali officials going in the plane. The official of
the UK Consulate also took the first flight. In the flight Nairobi-London he was not handcuffed
nor blindfolded and he was well treated by UK military officers.
- London: Upon arrival at Heathrow airport, he was taken by people, who identified
themselves as Scotland Yard officers, to the airport police station. There, he was interrogated
under the Terrorist Act 2000 Schedule 7 and detained for about nine hours before being
allowed to return home.
Judicial proceedings
He was never charged nor brought before any judicial proceedings.
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