Binyam Mohamed’s transatlantic quest for justice
By Andy Worthington
The case of Binyam Mohamed just gets weirder and weirder. For the last six months, the British resident and Guantánamo prisoner, who was seized in Pakistan in April 2002, has been engaged in a transatlantic struggle to secure evidence [...]
LONDON (AFP) — The government is to investigate alleged mistreatment of one of its nationals held at the Guantanamo Bay US detention camp, an official said on Friday.
Binyam Mohamed, who was detained in Pakistan in 2002, and is the last remaining Guantanamo detainee with a right to return to Britain, has been held in the [...]
Six military prosecutors have quit the Guantanamo court in the last four years.
The US military has refused to release five Guantanamo Bay detainees - despite confirming it is to drop war crimes charges against them.
No reason was given for the decision on Tuesday.
The military said in a statement it retained the right to file new charges against the five [...]
by Andy Worthington
As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the US Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed – that he was involved, with American citizen Jose Padilla, in a plot to detonate a “dirty bomb” [...]
by Andy Worthington
In the lawless world of Guantánamo – and the United States’ even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA – it has taken six years and four months for British resident Binyam Mohamed to secure anything [...]
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has failed to persuade the High Court that evidence which could help prove the innocence of a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay must remain secret.
Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones ruled yesterday that Mr Miliband had not properly considered allegations of “medieval” torture made by Binyam [...]
By JOANNE MARINER
This Wednesday, unless the UK foreign secretary takes rapid action, Britain’s High Court will hold a hearing to assess whether the UK government should be ordered to hand over secret documents to lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee. The detainee in question, Binyam Mohamed, faces possible charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism [...]
By RAYMOND BONNER
LONDON — A British court said on Thursday that a terrorism suspect being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had credible arguments that the United States had illegally spirited him away to Morocco and that he had been tortured there.
The United States has repeatedly rejected assertions by the suspect, Binyam Mohamed, that he [...]
IF, LIKE me, you’re hooked on BBC One’s spy drama Spooks, you’ll know that the last series ended on a stomach-churning cliffhanger with two of our heroic MI5 intelligence officers, Adam and?Jo,?captured?by?a?group called Red-backs that specialises in torturing spies to extract intelligence.
The Red-backs’ Torquemada polishes his?suitcase?full?of?state-of-the-art information-extracting kit while a tape of the agonising screams [...]
High court orders British security services to reveal secret information on UK resident facing trial on terror charges
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Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident held in Guantánamo Bay. Photograph: PA
A British resident being held in Guantánamo Bay today won his high court bid to force British security services to reveal secret [...]
James Sturcke
Last remaining Guantánamo Bay detainee with automatic right to return to UK faces death penalty after being charged with terrorism offences by Pentagon
Binyam Mohamed, the last remaining Guantánamo Bay detainee with an automatic right to return to the UK, faces the death penalty after being
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LONDON (AP) - A British court ordered Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Thursday to disclose secret documents that could prove critical to the defense of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who claims he was tortured while in U.S. custody on terrorism charges.
Miliband now has a week to decide whether to comply with the order to
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A ruling will be given in a legal bid to force the Government to release evidence which a British resident detained in Guantanamo Bay says supports his case that the Americans are trying to convict him on evidence tainted by torture.
Two judges in the High Court in London will announce their decision in an action [...]
A British citizen facing a military trial in America’s Guantanamo Bay prison camp is launching a legal battle over claims he was tortured into confessing to terror offences.
Binyam Mohamed was detained in Pakistan. He says the British government is refusing to release evidence
that backs up his allegations that he was the victim of extraordinary rendition [...]
A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.
Lawyers acting for Binyam Mohamed, who is accused of terrorism offences, say there are strong grounds for believing the UK security and intelligence services hold the evidence, [...]
London Guantánamo Campaign
The London Guantánamo Campaign is holding a week-long continuous vigil outside the US Embassy in Mayfair, London, in the run up to Binyam Mohamed’s 30th birthday on 24 July. Held illegally for 6 years, enough is enough. It’s time for justice and the US to release Binyam Mohammed.
The London Guantánamo Campaign started a [...]
Where: Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery
When: 3 pm, Sunday 15 June
Who: Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith, former Guantánamo prisoners, Barney the Dinosaur and other special guests
On Sunday 15 June, US President George W. Bush is visiting London as part of his valedictory world tour, and will be having tea with the Queen [...]
Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” introduces a new report, by legal action charity Reprieve, detailing the rendition and torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed, who faces a trial by Military Commission in Guantánamo.
Lawyers for a London resident held in Guantanamo Bay have accused the US government of covering up his alleged torture.
According to the legal action charity Reprieve, Binyam Mohamed was abused in prisons in Morocco and Afghanistan by “proxy torturers” working on behalf of the United States before being brought to the US base in Cuba [...]
Binyam Mohammed, the British resident detained in Guantanamo, has been subjected to so much psychological torture by music that he could almost make his own gruesome compilation album
By Clive Stafford Smith
Readers of these pages may or may not know what the following three songs have in common: “Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen, “White [...]
This has been a disturbing week for British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured two and a half years of torture at the hands of Pakistani agents, the CIA, and the United States’ proxy torturers in Morocco, before being transferred to Guantánamo in September 2004.
A British man held at Guantanamo Bay is to be charged with war crimes, despite pleas from the UK to release him.
Binyam Mohamed, 30, has been accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to bomb apartment buildings in America.
The Government requested last year that he be released from the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, but [...]
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