Posts Tagged ‘Guantanamo’

Binyam Mohamed: Continuous Cover Up

February 11th, 2010


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Miliband forced to reveal secret torture evidence

February 10th, 2010

Miliband forced to reveal secret torture evidence in Binyam Mohamed case. Index on Censorship party to key test of open justice
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China protests Swiss asylum for Guantanamo Uighurs‎

February 4th, 2010

China has warned the Swiss government that its decision to grant asylum to two Chinese Uighurs currently detained in Guantanamo Bay will harm relations.  Switzerland’s justice minister said the decision to take the brothers was guided by humanitarian principles and should not be interpreted as giving preference to one country over another. The Obama administration has sought to resettle Uighurs in third countries for fear they may be persecuted if sent back to China.

Binyam Mohamed: security services aware of treatment

July 31st, 2009

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A revised High Court judgment on the case of Binyam Mohamed suggests that British intelligence services were aware of the location and treatment of the Ethiopian-born former Guantanamo inmate during his detention in Morroco. Mohamed claims to have been tortured while imprisoned there.
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US court withdraws abuse pictures release order

June 12th, 2009

A federal court ruled that pictures of detainee abuse by soldiers will not have to be released after an appeal by the US government. Read more here

Judge says Guantanamo evidence must be made public

June 3rd, 2009

A federal judge has rejected a US government request to keep secret unclassified evidence it says justifies the continued imprisonment of more than 100 Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Read more here

Binyam Mohamed: Foreign Office attempts to file ‘secret evidence’

May 1st, 2009

binyam_mohamedIndex on Censorship has learned that government lawyers are attempting to submit secret evidence on the treatment of former Guantanamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, as the Foreign Office continues to attempt to prevent the release of potentially damning information about his detention.

In a letter to the judges presiding over the case, Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones, the Treasury Solicitor has claimed that a Public Interest Immunity certificate could be necessary for any further evidence submitted by the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. This would allow the Foreign Office to supply evidence to the court in secret, on a basis not open to challenge or scrutiny.

The government is fighting an application by international media organisations, including Index on Censorship, to obtain the release of seven paragraphs that were redacted from an earlier judgment concerning Mohamed’s treatment at the hands of US officials. The Foreign Office had claimed that any release would endanger future intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US, a claim Mohamed’s lawyer, Dinah Rose QC, has described as ‘seriously misleading’.

Read the government letter here (pdf)

US releases torture documents

April 17th, 2009

President Barack Obama has released four top-secret memos detailing US torture techniques. Read more here