The British government should immediately halt plans to deport foreign terrorism suspects to countries that offer unreliable promises not to torture them.

The British government should drop its efforts to deport a Jordanian terrorism suspect who risks torture and an unfair trial if returned to Jordan.

Amnesty International, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Human Rights Watch called upon authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina today not to deport Imad Al Husein (also known as Abu Hamza al-Suri, his nom de guerre) to Syria.

The European Union should resist British government efforts to gain acceptance for the use of diplomatic assurances against torture in national security deportations and extraditions.

Rice should press the Algerian government on the well-being and status of Guantanamo detainees returned to Algeria.

US and Algerian authorities should immediately reveal the whereabouts of two Algerians transferred from Guantanamo to Algeria on July 2, 2008. The two men, Abderrahmane Houari, 28, and Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily, 49, have been missing since their return.

I am writing to express Human Rights Watch’s deep concern over the expulsion of Sami Ben Khemais Essid to Tunisia. Essid was expelled on the evening of June 3, 2008, from Fiumicino airport, under an expedited procedure for national security removals. Essid had been scheduled to appear in a Milan courtroom that day for a preliminary hearing on terrorism charges. It is our understanding he is now in Mornaguia prison pending retrial for a series of absentia convictions in Tunisia. At this writing we do not have information about his physical well-being.

In a May 7, 2008 letter to the Spanish government, Human Rights Watch expressed its deep concern that the government of Spain is considering the extradition to Russia of Murat Ajmedovich Gasayev, in reliance on diplomatic assurances against torture and ill-treatment proffered by the Russian authorities. Murat Gasayev, an ethnic Chechen, was arrested and detained in August 2004 by the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Ingushetia and claims that during his interrogation he was tortured and ill-treated, before being released without charge. Human Rights Watch has reason to believe that, if extradited to Russia, Gasayev would again face a real risk of torture and ill-treatment, as well as the denial of a fair trial due to the potential use of evidence extracted from other detainees under torture, and respectfully requests that the Spanish government reject as unreliable and insufficient Russia’s diplomatic assurances in the Gasayev case, halt its efforts to extradite him, and refuse to seek such assurances in any future case where there is a real risk of torture or ill-treatment on return.