Ali Partovi Still Is In Jail (U.S.A)

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با گذشت پنج سال از حملات تروريستی يازدهم سپتامبر ۲۰۰۱، يک شهروند ايرانی همچنان در بازداشت موقت سرویس های امنيتی آمريکا به سر می برد.
علی پرتوی يکی از ۱۲۰۰ مسلمان مظنون به شرکت در فعاليت های تروريستی است که پس از حملات یازده سپتامبر توسط نيروهای امنيتی و پليس آمريکا بازداشت شد.

مقام های آمريکايی می گويند تاکنون ۷۰۰ تن از اين مظنونان به خاطر اقامت غيرقانونی از اين کشور اخراج شده اند و به پرونده بقيه آنها از طريق مجامع قضايی رسيدگی شده است.

در اين حال، اين بازداشت های گسترده، اعتراض تعدادی از نمايندگان کنگره و سازمان های حقوق بشری را به همراه داشته است.

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به گزارش وزارت امنيت داخلی آمريکا، علی پرتوی که آخرين زندانی باقی مانده از آن گروه ۱۲۰۰ نفری است، به خاطر خودداری از بازگردانده شدن به ايران در بازداشت موقت نگه داشته می شود.

بر اساس اين گزارش، آقای پرتوی در سال ۲۰۰۱ با گذرنامه جعلی ايتاليايی وارد آمريکا شده و به همين خاطر در سال ۲۰۰۲ به ۱۷۵ روز زندان در ايالت آريزونا محکوم شد.

علی پرتوی که دوره محکوميت خود را پشت سر گذاشته است، حاضر به بازگشت به ايران نيست و مقام های آمريکايی هم با درخواست پناهندگی سياسی او مخالفت کرده اند.

آقای پرتوی تاکنون هفت بار از مقام امنيتی و قضايی آمريکا به خاطر نقض حقوق اجتماعی و بدرفتاری در زندان شکايت کرده است.

او که خواستار دريافت ده ميليون دلار غرامت از دولت آمريکا است می گويد بارها مورد شکنجه فيزيکی قرار گرفته است.
در اواخر سال 2001 میلادی، پنج سال پیش در روزهای پس از حملات تروریستی یازدهم سپتامبر می خواست با گذرنامه جعلی ایتالیایی وارد آمریکا شود که در فرودگاه بازداشت شد. او تقاضای پناهندگی کرد، اما به عنوان مظنون به تروریست بودن راهی بازداشتگاه شد. علی پرتوی به 173 روز حبس محکوم شد، اما با پایان یافتن مدت محکومیتش آزاد نشد، زیرا به گفته وکیل تسخیریش، دولت فدرال گمان می کرد او ممکن است تروریست باشد. آسوشیتدپرس نوشت مقامات آمریکا خواستند آقای پرتوی را به ایران بازگردانند، اما او گفته است نمی خواهد به ایران برگردد و بر تقاضای پناهندگیش اصرار کرده است. آسوشیتدپرس خواسته است با او مصاحبه ای تلفنی کند، اما وی گفته است سخت مشغول تهیه دادنامه هایش است و مایل به مصاحبه نیست. پرتوی که با وکیل تسخیریش تماس ندارد و می گوید به وکیل نیاز ندارد، از طریق کتابخانه زندان، دادنامه های کارشناسانه تنظیم می کند و تاکنون هفت دادنامه تسلیم دادگاه کرده است.

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wHAT WE CAN SAY? THEY DO EVRYTHING THAT LIKE.

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In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime, not considered a danger to society.

But he has been in custody for six years.

His name is Ali Partovi. And according to the Department of Homeland Security, he is the last to be held of about 1,200 Arab and Muslim men swept up by authorities in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

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There has been no full accounting of all of these individuals. Nor has a promised federal policy to protect against unrestricted sweeps been produced.

Human rights groups tried to track the detainees; members of Congress denounced the arrests. They all believed that all of those who had been arrested had been deported, released or processed through the criminal justice system.

Just this summer, it was reported that an Algerian man, Benemar "Ben" Benatta, was the last detainee, and that his transfer to Canada had closed the book on the post-9/11 sweeps.

But now The Associated Press has learned that at least one person — Partovi — is still being held. The Department of Homeland Security insists he really is the last one in custody.

"Certainly it's not our goal as an agency to keep anyone detained indefinitely," said DHS spokesman Dean Boyd. Boyd said the department would like to remove Partovi from the United States but that he refuses to return to his homeland of Iran.

And so he remains, a curious remnant of a desperate time.

Arrests now, questions later
Within hours of the Sept. 11 attacks — before it was even clear if they were over — the FBI was ordered to identify the terrorists who had managed to slip so smoothly into American society and to catch anyone who might have been working with them. The FBI operation was called PENTTBOM; it was swift and fierce, and the stakes couldn't have been higher.

When in doubt, the orders came, arrest now and ask questions later. To make this easier, law enforcement officials were authorized to use immigration charges as needed. The risk of allowing terrorists to slip away just because there wasn't ample evidence to hold them on terror charges could not be tolerated. And thus hundreds of individuals who were not terrorists, nor associated with terrorists, were temporarily taken into city, county and federal custody.

They were caught in their bedrooms while they slept, pulled from the restaurant kitchens where they worked, stopped at the border, even federal offices where they had gone to seek help. In the end, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft's call for "aggressive detentions" in the unprecedented sweeps netted more than 1,200 individuals in less than two months.

The initial reaction to the sweeps was confusion. Members of Congress, leading civil rights organizations, Arab and Muslim activists, even the Justice Department's internal watchdogs, didn't know how to react.

"After 9/11, everyone was caught off guard. There was so much secrecy surrounding the government's policies that it took a number of months before the public and civil-liberties groups began unraveling what the government was doing," said Lee Gelernt, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney.

Then came demands, from Congress, from the Justice Department's Inspector General, from the ACLU and Human Rights Watch and from Arab and Muslim activists, that these individuals must be accounted for.

To date that hasn't occurred.

"The fact is the United States has not come forward with information on what happened to these people, or released their names," said Rachel Meeropol, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, an advocacy organization that represents several detainees being held in Guantanamo.

"Our understanding is that the majority of these people who were swept up on immigration violations were then held in detention until they were cleared of any connection to terrorism. We believe that accounts for the vast majority of people who were swept up."