Demand US call for release of US Citizen Shawki Ahmed Omar unlawfully held in Iraq for two decades
Channel: The Law Office of Dr Curtis FJ Doebbler
Date: 2021-12-03

Shawki Ahmed Omar, an American citizen, has been in prison for almost two decades after he went to Iraq to try to help Iraqis restore their economy by doing business in Iraq. 

The US detained him based on false accusations and held him for more than four years without ever charging him. During this time he and his wife were tortured by America soldiers. In 2010, after the Supreme Court of the United States believed the misrepresentations of the United States that they had not tortured Shawki and that the Iraqis would not torture him, he was turned over to the Iraqis. The Iraqis promptly tortured him. 

He was then tried and convicted by an Iraqi court for entering Iraq illegally as the United States government refused to return his passport to him in which valid entry permission. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was then tried on trumped up murder charges, but they were withdrawn after the main witness recanted his testimony. 

After a trial that was found to be unfair by several United Nations human rights experts, he was convicted of belonging to an illegal organization, which he had never heard of on the basis of evidence from witnesses he was not able to confront. 

This ongoing miscarriage of justice against an American citizen has been described in United Nations and media reports, including a well-research article in The Intercept. 

This case is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in recent United States history. It is a case where the US government essentially lied to the US Supreme Court to cover up torture and to be able to turn an American citizen over to people who they knew would torture him.

This is what former Attorney General of the United States Ramsey Clark had to say about Shawki's detention.