Countries cannot claim to operate the rule of law at home while committing criminality, such as abductions, abroad.
His mission was to receive an IPOB leader. In the underground car park, he was abducted, and then terrorised for eight days before his rendition to Abuja on Sunday, 27 June. He was travelling on his British passport. So it was a case of a visting foreign national abducted by a third country… It was a clear case of a government sworn to uphold the rule of law, constitutionality and fundamental human rights, caught abroad violently violating all these.
Luckily for the victim, his colleague who escaped, alerted the Malaysian police, which was able to trace the victim and free him. He had sustained injuries to his body, head and legs. Both Palestinians left the country, eleven Malaysians were charged with the kidnap, while the Israelis remain free in their country to track down more Palestinians abroad for abduction or even murder.
It was a clear case of a government sworn to uphold the rule of law, constitutionality and fundamental human rights, caught abroad violently violating all these. The Macedonians transferred him to the American Central Intelligence Agency , which flew him to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was detained and interrogated. Nobody was ready to listen to his explanations or crosscheck his claims. When after four months the Americans discovered their error, rather than apologise and return him home, they flew him back to Europe and abandoned him on a roadside in Albania.