4 May 2010 | Uncategorized
Good news from the Royal Courts of Justice, where Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger has ruled that Britain’s security services will not be allowed to submit evidence in secret in the case of Binyam Mohamed and several other Guantanamo detainees.
Mohamed is seeking compensation for abuse and wrongful imprisonment.
Lord Neuberger, Lord Justice Maurice Kay, and Lord Justice Sullivan noted:
“In our view the principle that a litigant should be able to see and hear all the evidence which is seen and heard by a court determining his case is so fundamental, so embedded in the common law that, in the absence of parliamentary authority, no judge should override it, at any rate in relation to an ordinary civil claim …”
8 Apr 2010 | Index Index, minipost, Uncategorized
The prominent Chinese human rights lawyer and activist Gao Zhisheng, who had been missing for over a year, gave his first interview to the Associated Press yesterday.
During the interview, Gao refused to discuss the suspicious circumstances surrounding his disappearance and reappearance, or comment on his treatment by Chinese authorities. Gao has previously written an open letter detailing graphic accounts of torture whilst under arrest in China, as well the treatment of his wife and children whom he claims had been starved whilst under captivity. The abandoning of his political activism now, says Gao, is due to concern for his family, currently residing in the US, whom he hopes to be reunited with one day.
26 Feb 2010 | Comment
A court ruled today that the full draft judgment of its ruling on the case of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, including sections the Foreign Secretary had attempted to suppress, should be published.
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