DPP to investigate MI5 over torture allegations
The Attorney General, Baroness Scotland QC, has announced that she has referred the case of UK resident Binyam Mohammed to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
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The shame of secrecy
The case of Binyam Mohamed (right) underlines the need for transparency in the justice system, even during a ‘war on terror’, writes Aisha Maniar
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Youth jailed for king ‘insult’
A schoolboy in Morocco has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for insulting the country’s monarch.
The 18-year-old allegedly changed the ‘God, Fatherland, King’ national slogan on his school blackboard to ‘God, Fatherland, Barcelona’. Read more here
Man jailed for mock Facebook entry pardoned
A man imprisoned in Morocco for creating a fake Facebook profile of the king’s brother has been released after receiving a royal pardon.