"Given the extensive evidence before Siac that Y would face a real risk of torture if deported to Algeria, today's decision can only be described as an affront to justice, and wrong," spokeswoman Nicola Duckworth said. In a highly unusual move, three of the jurors who acquitted Y in last year's ricin trial issued a statement through Amnesty condemning the Algerian's treatment by the British authorities. "We were three jurors on Y's criminal trial and after seven months listening carefully to the evidence and arguments from the prosecution and defence, we, as a jury, acquitted him of all charges and expected that on his release he could begin to rebuild his life in this country," the statement said. "As three ordinary members of the public, we have had our eyes opened to such an unfair and unjust sequence of events orchestrated by the authorities that we feel compelled to speak out. This is contrary to anything we thought could be possible in a democratic, free society,"