DUBAI, 18 September 2005 — The dying father of a Bahraini detainee held at Guantanamo Bay has made a final heart-rending plea to see his son, a Bahraini newspaper reported yesterday.
Mohammed Al-Dossary, who suffers from throat cancer, is urging Bahraini authorities and rights activists for help in getting his son Juma released, said the Gulf Daily News.
Al-Dossary was admitted to the intensive care unit at a hospital in Dammam on Thursday for complications following surgery. He has not seen his son for nearly four years and is said to be in and out of consciousness.
The plea was made Friday by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. “His family contacted us and conveyed the request of Juma’s father to see his son before he dies,” its president Nabeel Rajab said.
“The father even sent a letter to the center before undergoing the operation, pleading to see his son for fear that he would die without having the chance to do so,” he added.
Rajab said that even though there was very little hope that the father and son will be reunited, he would speak to the attorneys and the US Embassy to check if anything could be done. “There are many detainees, who if released and went back home, will find that they had lost loved ones without the opportunity of being by their side,” he said.
