A Guyanese woman who wants to marry her death row lover has filed a motion in the High Court seeking damages on his behalf for what she claims is a violation of his fundamental rights as is enshrined in Article 141 (1) of the Constitution of Guyana.Ameena Khan filed the motion yesterday on behalf of convicted murderer hafiz hussain through attorney at law K.A. Juman-Yassin.The defendant in the matter is the Attorney General.Khan, of 34 Plantation Vries Land, West Bank Demerara, is seeking damages in excess of $100,000 for breach of Hussain’s fundamental rights in that the conditions under which he has been kept amounts to torture and or inhuman and degrading punishment.Hussain has been placed in solitary confinement since April this year after prison authorities claimed that they found a hammer and chisel in his cell.The authorities believe that Hussain was in the process of planning a prison breakout.However, Khan is convinced that his plight stems from her refusal to engage in a relationship with a senior officer at the Georgetown Prisons.Hafiz Hussain,
NFL Jerseys Supply, who has been a prisoner since 1993 had been convicted with the offence of murder and had lost all his appeals.He had filed a petition to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations under the Optional Protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.The application to the Human Rights Committee was registered as Complaint No. 862/1999.The Human Rights Committee had in its 85th session between the 17th October to the 3rd November,
Cheap China Jerseys Authentic, 2005 in paragraph 6.3 found that the Government of Guyana had violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights in respect to the imposition of the death penalty on Hafiz Hussain.In her affidavit to support the motion, Khan claimed that she has had a close relationship with the condemn prisoner and had made an application to the Director of Prisons and the Minister of Home Affairs in February, 2009 for permission to marry him.To date she has not received permission to do so but continues to visit Hussain regularly and as often as is permitted by the Prison Authority.She claimed that she has known Hussain since around 2007 when she met him at the Georgetown Public Hospital where he had been receiving medical treatment.A friendship developed between the two and she began visiting the convict at the Georgetown Prisons.According to Khan her son was imprisoned and during one of her visits to him she met a senior officer of the Georgetown Prisons.Khan claimed that on one occasion when she visited her son in prison, she was taken by another officer to the senior officer’s office but when she attempted to leave, the senior officer came behind her and pulled her away from the door.“(The officer) placed his hand around my breast anal squeezed my breast. (Officer’s name) then unzipped his pants and placed one of my hands on his penis and told me that he wanted to have sex with me,” Khan stated in her affidavit.She said that she pushed him away and in a loud tone of voice, told him to leave her alone.The officer insisted that he wanted a relationship with her and he continued to call her on her telephone but she refused to answer.She said that after she began visiting Hussain, the senior officer in question began to move him from cell to cell and during the period of one year, Hafiz Hussain was moved about six times.As a result of this, Khan made a complaint to the Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee and Director of Prisons Dale Erskine, about the treatment being meted out to Hussain.She claimed that at all times when she visited Hussain there would always be a Prison Officer present and this was not the situation when other prisoners had visits.According to Khan,
Cheap NFL Football Jerseys, because of her actions towards him, the Senior Prison Officer has since stopped her from visiting Hussain for about three months now.When she enquired why this was the case, the Senior Officer told her that she can visit any other prisoner, but not Hafiz Hussain.“As a result I called Mr. Erskine,
Wholesale China Jerseys, Director of Prisons and told him that (officer’s name) has stopped me from visiting Hafiz Hussain without any just and proper reason. Mr. Erskine told me that he will speak to (officer’s name) and that I should call him back.”When Khan called back the Director of Prisons as requested, he told her that he had spoken to the officer and that the officer was in charge of the prison and it was his right to stop me and or any other person from visiting any prisoner.According to Khan’s affidavit, on the April 26, 2010, about 11:00 hours, Prison Officers went to the cell of the said Hafiz Hussain
