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24 Feb 2010, 1:33 am by traceydennis
Reprieve, which represents Binyam Mohamed and several other former Guantanamo Bay detainees, is to go to court to force the Government to disclose what it describes as Britain’s ‘torture policy’. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 10:07 am by Ximena Marinero
[JURIST] The UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) [official website] on Saturday called for an independent investigation [press release] into allegations that the government had knowledge of and was complicit in the torture of Binyam Mohamed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and 24 other British residents and citizens while they were held abroad as terror suspects. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 12:49 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Earlier this week, British journalist Andy Worthington reposted an article written by former Guantánamo detainee and ACLU rendition client Binyam Mohamed about Omar Khadr, one of the child soldiers detained at Gitmo since he was 15. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 1:29 am by sally
“Last week Jonathan Evans, the Director-General of M15, emerged from behind his veil to comment on the case of Binyam Mohamed. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 5:07 am by michael
Regina (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Court of Appeal “It was for the court to determine whether a government claim of serious damage to national security required parts of the reasons in its judgment should be left out. [read post]
16 Feb 2010, 1:29 am by traceydennis
Lawyers for leading British and American media organisations have written to the Court of Appeal asking the judges to reinstate a paragraph — which disclosed how much M15 had been told about the torture of the Guantánamo Bay detainee, Binyam Mohamed — that they removed from their draft judgment after representations from the Foreign Secretary. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 1:53 pm by charonqc
Financial Times: Cameron targets non-Tory vote The FT does, indeed, cover this rather more sensibly than I do…. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 4:25 am by charonqc
That report, based on testimony from Eliza Manningham-Buller, Evans’s predecessor, informed the world that MI5 had been unaware of any ill-treatment dished out by its US allies to Binyam Mohamed. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 12:12 pm by Steve Czajkowski
[JURIST] The head of the UK intelligence service MI5 [official website] on Friday denied [press release] accusations that it had collaborated with the US over the alleged torture of former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Binyam Mohamed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 3:52 am by Sarah Miley
[JURIST] US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair [official profile] on Wednesday condemned [press release, PDF] a UK Court of Appeal ruling [judgment text; JURIST report] that the British government must publish intelligence relating to the alleged torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed [JURIST news archives]. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 11:17 pm by charonqc
” There is no suggestion that MI5 were involved directly in the torture of Binyam Mohamed. [read post]
11 Feb 2010, 1:33 am by traceydennis
“Legal defeat plunges Security Service into crisis over torture evidence, and it is revealed that judge removed damning verdict after Foreign Office QC’s plea. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 5:52 pm by constitutional lawblogger
A three-judge panel of the British Court of Appeal today ordered the release of a seven-paragraph summary of U.S. intelligence information about the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, the detainee who was subject to extraordinary rendition, torture, and detention at Guantanamo... [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 2:19 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
In that case the judge, after reviewing extensive evidence of Mohamed's allegations of torture, noted that the government did "not challenge or deny the accuracy of Binyam Mohamed's story of brutal treatment. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 6:02 am by Jay Carmella
[JURIST] The England and Wales Court of Appeal [official website] on Wednesday ruled [judgment text] that the government must disclose the seven previously withheld paragraphs outlining the alleged torture of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed [JURIST news archives]. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 3:16 am by charonqc
The following is quoted from the first judgment of the Divisional Court in the Binyam Mohamed case on 21 August 2008. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 2:06 am by sally
“The foreign secretary has lost a bid to prevent the disclosure of secret information relating to the alleged torture of a UK resident. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 1:35 am by sally
“The Court of Appeal is to decide whether to release documents detailing the alleged torture of a UK resident. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 3:05 am by Adam Wagner
Binyam Mohamed Read our case comment here The Government has lost its appeal (see the BBC report) against the Divisional Court’s decision to order it to release an unredacted version of an email relating to the “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment which Binyam Mohamed received during questioning by the Americans. [read post]