Mr Mohamed, a British resident, claims he was tortured
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A US military lawyer is travelling to Britain to urge the Foreign Office to press harder for the release of a UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay.
Lt Col Yvonne Bradley told the BBC that her client Binyam Mohamed is very ill as a result of a hunger strike.
Charges against him were dropped last year. He has alleged torture, and the UK government has been criticised after the full details were kept secret.
“Mr Mohamed needs to be released now and not later,” said Lt Col Bradley.
When asked why he was still at the camp, despite charges being dropped and the UK government saying it was pressing for his release, she said: “That’s the million dollar question. He should not be there.”
Ethiopian national Mr Mohamed, 30, is the last recognised British resident to be held in the US detention camp in Cuba.
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He has maintained that the evidence against him was obtained through torture, which the US denies.
Lt Col Bradley said there was continuing concern over claims that he was still being detained because he was at the centre of a British High Court case in which he is seeking to prove he was tortured.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4′s Today programme before she boarded a flight to the UK, she said she believed there was still a need among US officials to “cover it up”.
“My coming to the UK is to try to talk to as many officials as possible and make them aware that Mr Mohamed needs to be released now and not later, and not continue to allow the politics of this case to ruin him,” she said.
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