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21 Aug 2008, 2:48 pm
Binyam Mohamed, the last remaining Guantánamo Bay detainee with an automatic right to return to the UK, faces the death penalty after being charged with terrorism offences by the Pentagon. [read post]
22 Oct 2009, 9:02 am
Head of Legal Blog Lawcast 157: The High Court judgment in the Binyam Mohamed affair on disclosure Today I am talking to Carl Gardner, ex government lawyer and author of the Head of Legal blog, about the recent Binyam Mohamed judgment on disclosure of information.. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 9:05 am
Reprieve: British government uses 'Alice in Wonderland' argument to cover up torture of Binyam Mohamed [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]
1 Sep 2009, 1:39 am
Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantanamo detainee, has reversed a decision to stay out of the public eye by signalling his determination to campaign for justice for prisoners at the American detention camp and highlight the lifelong effects of torture he suffered at the hands of his interrogators. [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]
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]
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]
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]
17 Nov 2010, 8:15 am by sally
“The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped its investigation into an MI5 officer accused of complicity in the mistreatment of Binyam Mohamed. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 1:05 am
“This week lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo detainee, return to court to challenge the ruling that he cannot see secret evidence that, he maintains, is central to his claim to have been subject to torture with the consent of the UK intelligence authorities. [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]
21 Apr 2009, 1:37 am
“Lawyers for the government have admitted that a senior MI5 officer gave false evidence to the high court in the case of former Guantánamo Bay prisoner 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]
15 Dec 2009, 12:32 am
Jonathan Sumption QC, no longer a candidate for selection over the heads of Court of Appeal judges in the race for the new Supreme Court Justice appointment, told the Court of Appeal that the judges’ stance in the Binyam Mohamed 'redaction case' was “in many respects unnecessary and profoundly damaging to the interests [...] [read post]
15 May 2009, 1:22 am
“The cost of returning former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed to Britain in February was put at more than £121,000, according to new figures. [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]
26 Mar 2009, 3:28 am
R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 5) [2009] EWHC 571 (Admin); [2009] WLR (D) 110 “Consistent with the interests of open justice and the rule of law, an annex to an earlier judgment of the court, integral to that judgment but previously withheld so as not to prejudice confidential [...] [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]