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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/appeal-for-help-over-iraq-detention.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Ramze Shihab Ahmed's wife asked William Hague to insist that her husband is either released or charged" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-appeal-for-help-over-iraq-detention.jpg" alt="Ramze Shihab Ahmed's wife asked William Hague to insist that her husband is either released or charged"/></a></p>
<p>The wife of a British man held without charge in Iraq for a year has urged the Government to step up its efforts to secure his release.</p>
<p>Ramze Shihab Ahmed, a dual Iraqi-UK national, claims to have been tortured in Iraq following his arrest on December 7 last year after travelling there in an attempt to free his detained son Omar.</p>
<p>His wife Rabiha al-Qassab used the anniversary of his arrest to ask Foreign Secretary William Hague to insist that her husband is either released or charged by Christmas.</p>
<p>The 63-year-old former teaching assistant, who lives in north-west London, said: &#8220;I can hardly believe that a whole year has gone by with my husband in jail like this. It&#8217;s disgraceful what they&#8217;re doing to him. He doesn&#8217;t even know what he&#8217;s accused of.</p>
<p>&#8220;An Iraqi judge recently visited my husband and assured him that the &#8216;confession&#8217; that the interrogators tortured out of him will be disregarded and that they&#8217;ll re-investigate the case.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is better news but I want to see the Iraqis say either, &#8216;We&#8217;re charging him,&#8217; or, much more likely, &#8216;We&#8217;re going to release him.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;The UK ought to be saying this as well. I appreciate the fact that William Hague has raised the case with the Iraqi authorities, but I&#8217;d really like to see more being done now that a year has passed.&#8221;</p>
<p>The whereabouts of Mr Shihab Ahmed, 68, were unknown until March when he was able to make a short phone call to his wife in London.</p>
<p>A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: &#8220;We are very concerned about the allegations of mistreatment and raised them with the Iraqi authorities at a senior level as soon as we were aware of them. We continue to raise this issue with them.</p>
<p>&#8220;The British Embassy in Baghdad has repeatedly made clear to the Iraqi authorities how seriously we take such allegations, and have requested that they be investigated.&#8221;</p>
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