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9 Mar 2009, 2:30 am
“New revelations by Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, claiming that British intelligence played a central role in his torture and interrogation, must be answered by the government, the former shadow home secretary David Davis said last night. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 2:38 am
The reviewer, Lord Carlile of Berriew [Times profile; JURIST news archive], specifically cited the case of Binyam Mohamed [JURIST news archive], the British resident who alleges that he was tortured with the knowledge of MI5 [official [read post]
27 Feb 2009, 11:44 am by Tom Parker
” Finally, one chilling reminder of just how important these issues remain comes from the legal charity Reprieve which represents 31 of the Guantanamo detainees, including British detainee Binyam Mohamed released earlier this week. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 9:46 am
In the first case of a Guantanamo Bay detainee allowed by the Obama Administration to leave confinement, following new review procedures, U.S. officials on Monday  transferred an Ethiopian, Binyam Mohammed,  to Britain. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 7:13 am
“ Full story The Independent, 23rd February 2009 Source: www.independent.co.uk Related link: Binyam Mohamed’s full statement [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 6:19 am
Binyam Mohamed will be flown to Great Britain today, his six year ordeal at Guantanamo and prisons in Morocco, Pakistan and Afghanistan finally over. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 2:48 am
[JURIST] Released Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Binyam Mohamed [BBC profile, JURIST news archive] was returned to the UK on Monday after being held for nearly seven years. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 8:46 am
Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed is being released to Great Britain. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 7:50 am
[JURIST] The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) [official website] said Friday that the US has agreed to return  [press release] UK resident and Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Binyam Mohamed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to the country as soon as his transfer can be arranged. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 8:33 am
“Prosecutors are being consulted over whether a criminal investigation should be ordered into UK security agents’ treatment of Binyam Mohamed. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 1:31 am
“The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, is considering launching a criminal investigation into whether MI5 agents were complicit in the alleged torture of British terror suspect Binyam Mohamed. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 4:01 am
Whitehall devised torture policy for terror detainees Binyam Mohamed is at the centre of Pakistani torture claimsMI5 interrogations in Pakistan agreed by lawyers and governmentA policy governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects in Pakistan that led to British citizens and residents being tortured was devised by MI5 lawyers and figures in government, according to evidence heard in court.As I was saying here and here. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 4:14 am
[JURIST] UK resident and Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Binyam Mohamed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was found by British authorities on Sunday to be healthy enough to return to the UK if the US government acquiesces to the request for his release. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 11:13 pm
[JURIST] Information redacted from a British High Court decision [text, PDF; JURIST report] released last week has been withheld from US President Barack Obama [official website] and may hold key information about British involvement in the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Binyam Mohamed [Reprieve profile, JURIST news archive], according to a letter [text, PDF] [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 4:11 pm by Tom Parker
The administration has also continued to block the release of 42 classified documents concerning the ill-treatment of British Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 1:40 am
“The only remaining British resident held at the prison camp is at the centre of a row about allegations of torture. [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 11:04 pm
I'm interested that Lord Goldsmith, writing in yesterday's Independent, essentially agrees with me on the Binyam Mohamed case:That the High Court finally agreed - with some apparent regret - with the Foreign Secretary in believing the preservation of a fully functioning intelligence-sharing relationship between the UK and US outweighed the necessity to make public information about alleged [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 4:13 pm
Via Think Progress, the Independent reports on the details of Binyam Mohamed's torture and the lines left out of the report: The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said. [read post]
6 Feb 2009, 2:33 am
R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (4) [2009] EWHC 152 (Admin); [2009] WLR (D) 36 “A novel issue, the striking of a balance between the public interest in national security and the public interest in open justice, the rule of law and democratic accountability, lay at the heart of the [...] [read post]