Ali Asad Chandia writes to Cageprisoners. Write back to him to show your appreciation for the Eid Mubarak picture he sent:

Cageprisoners has received reports from the relatives of seven Muslim men held in the detainee unit at HMP Long Lartin that they will not be allowed to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr in the main prison. Despite having been permitted to perform ‘Eid prayers and celebrations in general population in the past prison authorities have told the men that they can celebrate ‘Eid on the sex-offenders wing instead.

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده

I first read the Dickens’ classic, Bleak House, in solitary confinement, Camp Echo. The concentric part of this story is based on the fictitious – though accurately representative – and never-ending case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce which ultimately consumes and destroys the lives of its central characters, rather like the Supreme court decisions relating to the Guantánamo detainees. But it was the first sentence of another Dicken’s classic, A Tale of Two Cities, which reads, ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,’ that captured my imagination back then. For that is precisely how I would have described the noble months of Ramadhan spent in US custody.