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| Britons freed from chains in mullah's 'drug cure' prison |
| 2006-10-06 |
| A Pakistani cleric has been arrested for running a private jail to which he lured dozens of drug addicts from Britain by offering a spiritual cure in return for money. In a raid this week, police found 113 people, aged between 12 and 50, bound in chains and shackled together at a madrassa, or religious school, in a remote village in northern Pakistan. At least seven were British nationals of Pakistani origin. Many prisoners, whose relatives consigned them to the care of Maulana Ilyas Qadri hoping they would be cured, claimed to have been sexually assaulted, beaten and starved. The alarm was raised when two men shackled together escaped and told the police. Abdul Majeed Afridi, the area police chief, said: "We were not mentally prepared for such a scene when we entered the madrassa. It seemed something out of a drama rather than reality. "They were utterly terrified of him and the guards. They were beaten black and blue and claimed it was a jail, not a rehabilitation centre." |
| Posted by:john |
| #1 I hear duelling banjos when I read shit like this. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-10-06 09:56 |