By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
Abu Qatada, the alleged extremist preacher, has been arrested and sent back to jail after allegedly breaching his bail conditions by trying to escape from Britain.
Abu Qatada arrested after allegedly breaching his bail Photo: JONATHAN EVANS
Qatada, once described as “Osama bin Laden’s right hand man in Europe”, is understood to [...]
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Britain has failed in its duty to stop the US from committing “shameful acts” in the treatment of suspects detained during the war on terror, one of America’s most respected intellectuals warns today.
In an interview with The Independent, Professor Noam Chomsky calls on the Government to use [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
The existence of a secret, CIA-run prison on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has long been a leaky secret in the “War on Terror,” and today’s revelations in TIME — based on disclosures by a “senior American official” (now retired), who was “a frequent participant in White House Situation Room meetings” [...]
The U.S. military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean.
By ADAM ZAGORIN
Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terror suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world. “This program has helped us to [...]
· UK shared information with US, court told
· Lawyers want government to disclose secret files
Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian,
The security and intelligence agencies were “mixed up in wrongdoing” in cooperating with the US in the unlawful treatment of a UK resident now held in Guantánamo Bay, the high court heard yesterday.
They allegedly gave information to [...]
by smintheus
The British governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been shockingly complicit with the Bush administration both in using, encouraging, and facilitating torture, as well as in helping to cover up the traces. Some CIA torture flights passed through the UK, and British-controlled Diego Garcia has served as one of the primary staging [...]
A photo published by the British Daily Mirror on the abuse of Iraqi detainees
The British government has tried to cover up the use of prohibited interrogation techniques by British soldiers in Iraq, lawmakers say.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights, consisted of twelve members from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, [...]
The fiancee of a man facing trial over last summer’s alleged attempted London bombings has appeared in court accused of helping him evade arrest.
Fardosa Abdullah, who was 17 at the time of the alleged attempt on 21 July, is accused of assisting and failing to disclose information about Yassin Omar.
Ms Abdullah, of Finchley, north London, [...]
A veteran of Israeli gaols, wheelchair bound Mahmoud Abu Rideh is a stateless Palestinian, who has indefinite leave to remain in the UK. His family are British citizens. Following a police raid on his home in December 2001, Abu Rideh spent the next three and a half years detained without trial in HMP [...]
From a group of Nottingham residents, concerned students and academics at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Following the cancellation order on his deportation, and after being detained for over 30 days, Hicham Yezza has been released on bail after the Home Office refused to grant him temporary release.
Hicham, a prominent political journal editor, writer and University [...]
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 [...]
The wife of one of the failed 2005 London suicide bombers was found guilty Wednesday of failing to tell the police about the terrorist plot.
Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza convicted of alleged incitement is facing extradition to the US at their request. Currently he is subject to a number of measures that have been brought in post 11th September 2001 which include the government’s desire to remove his citizenship as a British citizen. He speaks to Cageprisoners about the [...]
Habib Ignaoua has been detained in HMP Belmarsh, contesting extradition to Italy, since June 2007. Habib fled Tunisia in 1994 after suffering detention and torture at the hands of the Tunisian security services. In the years since then, he has been convicted at least three times in his absence by Tunisia’s notorious military [...]
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 [...]
The wife of a controversial Muslim cleric deported to Tunisia in October is protesting in front of the Parliament Buildings in an effort to push the federal government to allow his return to Canada.
Nancy-Ann Adams said she is struggling
to care for three children on her own.
(CBC)
Nancy-Ann Adams arrived on Parliament Hill Monday with [...]
The Guardian
The controversy over prison ships was first highlighted in June 2005 when the UN’s special rapporteur on terrorism spoke of “very, very serious” allegations that the US was secretly detaining terrorism suspects in various locations around the world, notably on vessels in the Indian Ocean.
The US authorities have not denied that ships have been [...]
Over 100 people attended a public meeting organised by the LGC on Saturday 31 May concerning the plight of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident currently facing a military tribunal and potentially the death penalty at Guantánamo Bay
Meeting Report: Binyam Mohamed: The Last Londoner in Guantánamo Bay
At the start of the meeting, David Harrold speaking
Binyam Mohamed [...]
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
Associated Press Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to bomb resorts and military bases abroad has agreed to plead guilty, according to federal court documents filed Monday.
Christopher Paul, 44, a U.S. citizen who grew up in the Columbus suburb of Worthington, is expected to plead guilty Tuesday [...]
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