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28 Jun 2010, 12:58 pm by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
Document: Binyam Mohamed 7 secret paragraphs To read more about and see documentary evidence of the Bush administration's torture program, go to thetorturereport.com. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 11:44 am by Adam Wagner
More trouble for the intelligence services Last month the Court of Appeal roundly rejected a request by the Government that evidence in the high-profile torture compensation claim, including Binyam Mohamed and five others, should be kept secret from the public (see our post). [read post]
27 May 2010, 4:30 am by Angus McCullough QC
When in opposition, William Hague had called for an independent judicial inquiry into claims that British officials had colluded in the torture of Binyam Mohammed. [read post]
25 May 2010, 8:56 am by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
From London now comes news that incoming Foreign Secretary William Hague will order an official investigation into whether British intelligence agents were complicit in Binyam Mohamed's torture. [read post]
13 May 2010, 8:38 am by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
Like Binyam Mohamed in the U.K., Habib subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Australia “for aiding, abetting and counseling his torture and other inhumane treatment by foreign officials while he was detained in Pakistan, Egypt, and Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay. [read post]
11 May 2010, 10:24 pm by Adam Wagner
In a speech yesterday, he discussed the experience of having his judgment censored during the Binyam Mohamed appeal. [read post]
7 May 2010, 11:45 am by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
This week Binyam Mohamed moved another step closer to a public reckoning for his ordeal when a British appeals court ruled the government cannot rely on secret evidence to defend itself in a damages suit brought by Mohamed and five other U.K. [read post]
4 May 2010, 8:35 am by Adam Wagner
The judgment is the latest in a series of reverses suffered by the Government in matters involving Binyam Mohamed and others in relation to their alleged torture. [read post]
2 May 2010, 1:39 pm by Hilde
The government batted away each reasonable request.Ultimately, this week, we had no choice but to sue to confirm the prisoners' names.As the political parties squabble over cutting waste, they would do well to begin with the government's pointless defence of the indefensible with their expensive hired legal guns – here, as in Binyam Mohamed's case.As if this were not folly enough, now the government has threatened to try to make Reprieve – a charity… [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 10:38 am by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
As with Binyam Mohamed, it turns out these statements were gathered at Bagram air base after the two men had been tortured, first in foreign dungeons and then in the CIA’s “Dark Prison. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 2:28 am by Adam Wagner
The most notable recent example is the Binyam Mohamed case, where the Court of Appeal heavily criticised the security services. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 7:46 am by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
Today we post the conclusion of “A Ponzi Scheme of Torture,” a chapter which pieces together the interconnected, serial tortures of Abu Zubaydah, Binyam Mohamed, and Jose Padilla. [read post]
12 Mar 2010, 2:25 am by Adam Wagner
David Pannick QC says in an article in the Times that the controversy surrounding the Binyam Mohammed case has been a disaster for the security services and has highlighted the need for more effective supervision: The sorry saga of the Binyam Mohamed litigation has required the judiciary to strip away evasions and half-truths by the Security Services that have inflicted a body blow on their own reputation. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 1:54 am by sally
“Last week’s decision of the appeal court judges in the case of Binyam Mohamed, to restore their original criticisms of the security services, shone a light on the practice by which judges circulate their draft judgments privately before publishing them. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 11:58 pm by charonqc
” Carl Gardner, ex-government lawyer and author of the Head of Legal blog, writes: Binyam Mohamed: finally, an end “I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to comment on the Court of Appeal’s judgment in R(Mohamed) v Foreign Secretary. [read post]
1 Mar 2010, 2:12 am by sally
“The Appeal Court has published a judge’s criticisms of MI5 after a row over censorship. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 10:34 pm by charonqc
” Government fury as judges attack security services The Guardian reports: Ministers back MI5 after highly critical verdict on secret service involvement in Binyam Mohamed case. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 6:12 am by Daniel Makosky
[JURIST] The England and Wales Court of Appeal [official website] on Friday disclosed additional text [judgment, PDF] that was omitted from a previous ruling related to former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed [JURIST news archives]. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 2:39 am by sally
“The Court of Appeal today dealt another judicial blow to the establishment when it ruled that a controversial paragraph criticising the British Security Service should be reinstated in an earlier judgment. [read post]