Important: Update on the Zundel Saga

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

Please post this far and wide!

Zgram to my Internet readers as well as mainstream and alternative media:

I didn't neglect my readership - as per usual, we have had to 
struggle with Internet sabotage, and I still cannot reach my 
translator as well as one of our attorneys through regular channels. 
(Being creative folks, we manage to communicate via back doors, of 
course Š)

Several important developments have occurred in the Ernst Zundel Saga 
- and much more is yet to come. 

Very briefly:  The trial in Mannheim has been postponed again - this 
time indefinitely.  So far, in 6 or 7 hearing days, all the time was 
taken up with questions about protocol and about whether or not 
Ernst's attorneys might not be as politically correct as is expected 
- only the charges were being read. 

There will not be another trial date for 3 or 4 weeks.  We will keep 
you posted.

Meanwhile, there are some stunning developments that I can't talk 
about as yet, but I can tell you this much:  We are now treating 
Ernst's arrest and deportation as a bona fide extrajudicial rendition 
- in other words, a political kidnapping, as it should have been 
dealt with all along.  We are justified in doing this because we are 
in the possession of some 150 lbs (!) of Freedom of Information Act 
documents, many on official letterhead, that show clearly that three 
(possibly four) so-called "democratic" states were involved at the 
highest level in criminalizing and then railroading one man into 
incarceration whose only "weapon" was his old-fashioned fountain pen. 

Here are two letter that will be of interest to Zundel-Watchers:

From: Christopher Bollyn, American Free Press, Washington, D.C.
To:     Martina Nibbeling, Press Attache, Embassy of Germany
Re:     Arrest and Deportation of Ernst Zundel, German Citizen
Date:  March 15, 2006

Martina Nibbeling-Wriessnig
Press Attache
Embassy of Germany in Washington, D.C.

Dear Martina,

This is to confirm my email contact address after speaking with you 
this morning on the phone.

Regarding the arrest of Ernst Zundel at his home in Tennessee by 
agents of the local police and agents of the INS, I have a couple 
questions that I would like to pose to you as press representative of 
the German Embassy in Washington:

Ernst Zundel is a German citizen whose human and legal rights appear 
to have been grossly abused by U.S. and Canadian authorities.  I have 
seen documents that indicate that the German authorities were asking 
about the legal basis of Zundel's arrest when it occurred on February 
5, 2003.

Zundel was deported to Canada where he spent two years in solitary 
confinement as a national security threat to Canada.  He was kept in 
a cold cell without shoes or socks in which the light was never 
turned off.  He was not given a warm meal for two years.  This sounds 
to me like a gross violation of his human rights.

Furthermore, Mr. Zundel and his wife Ingrid Rimland were not shown 
any document authorizing his arrest at the time of the arrest.  The 
arresting officers did not present a court order or warrant for his 
arrest.  Is this not a violation of Mr. Zundel's rights in the view 
of the German Embassy?

What actions did the German Embassy take to protect the human and 
legal rights of Mr. Zundel, a German citizen?

Why was Mr. Zundel not given a German passport?  Documentation from 
the BKA Mecklenheim from February 2003 clearly indicate that the 
German authorities were conspiring on how they could deny issuing a 
new passport for Mr. Zundel.

Why would German authorities conspire against a German citizen who 
needed to have a new passport?

I look forward to hearing from you soon on these matters.  I am 
working on an investigation of how Mr. Zundel was arrested and 
deported from the United States.

Having seen some of the documents concerning this matter, I am of the 
opinion that his arrest was illegal, coordinated with German 
authorities, and appears to have been a extra-judicial rendition.

Best wishes,

Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
Washington, D.C.

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From: Christopher Bollyn, American Free Press, Washington, D.C.

To:       John Tackaberry and Elizabeth Berton-Hunter, Amnesty 
International (Canada)

Re:      Extra-judicial Rendition of Ernst Zuendel (Zündel)

John Tackaberry, Media Relations
Amnesty International, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

Elizabeth Berton-Hunter, Media Relations
Amnesty International, Toronto
Toronto, ON

Dear Amnesty International of Canada,

I am a journalist with American Free Press of Washington, D.C.  My 
questions pertain to Ernst Zuendel, a landed immigrant in Canada of 
40 years, and pertain to how he was treated in Canada by Canadian 
authorities prior to and during two years of solitary confinement in 
a Toronto lock-up.

First, I am interested in any papers written or actions taken by 
Amnesty International on behalf of, or concerning the arrest and 
deportation of, Ernst Zuendel from the United States in February 2003.

Having attended Zuendel's trial in Mannheim, Germany, I am aware of 
the grossly unfair jurisprudence he faces in that country.  What 
concerns me now is how he was treated by U.S. and Canadian 
authorities prior to being deported to Germany.

After meeting with his wife Ingrid Rimland in Tennessee, I am 
convinced that his arrest on February 5, 2003 was illegal.  No arrest 
warrants or court papers were presented and they were prevented from 
contacting their lawyer at the time.  Everything that I have seen and 
heard about the deportation of Mr. Zuendel indicates that this action 
was an extra-judicial rendition.

Furthermore, when Zuendel was brought to Toronto he was held in 
solitary confinement in conditions that can only be described as 
torturous.  He was kept in a cell in which the light was never turned 
off and in which the temperature was kept very low.  During this 
two-year period he was not allowed to wear shoes or socks and was not 
given warm food.  Nor was he provided with a chair or a table.

These conditions of his incarceration in Canada sound extreme to say 
the least and sound very much like those found in the U.S. prison at 
Guantanamo, Cuba.

Mr. Zuendel was held in Canada as a "national security" threat.  Did 
Amnesty International (Canada) do anything for Mr. Zuendel during the 
two years that he was held without being charged of any criminal 
offense?  If not, why not?

I look forward to your response on this matter.

Sincerely,

Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press





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