Showing posts with label binyam mohammed. Show all posts
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Binyam Mohammed Was Released From Guantanomo Bay & Has Returned To The U.K.!



Binyam Mohammed is the Ethiopian Gitmo detainee that was the subject of one of my recent posts!He has now been released from Gitmo & he is back in the U.K.!Mr. Mohammed said that he was tortured at Guantanomo Bay & his case has gained world-wide attention.Here's more from the Telegraph:

"The Guantanamo detainee, Binyam Mohamed has now been released amid claims he was tortured with the full knowledge of British intelligence.
Mr Mohamed said the worst moment in the last seven years had come "when I realised in Morocco that the people who were torturing me were receiving questions and materials from British intelligence."

He added: "I have been through an experience that I never thought to encounter in my darkest nightmares…It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways, all orchestrated by the United States government."

Mr Mohamed, who had broken a hunger strike before his return, was well enough to walk across the tarmac at RAF Northolt in West London, and in a statement he thanked the Foreign Office for their role in his release

But his arrival back in the UK is likely to bring further pressure on David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, who has referred the question of whether British agents were complicit in torturing Mr Mohamed to the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, for consideration over whether to bring a prosecution.

The US government was criticised by judges in the High Court for blocking the release of documents relating to Mr Mohamed's treatment in detention and he is expected to continue to fight for their publication, saying: "I am not asking for vengeance, only that the truth should be made known, so that nobody in the future should have to endure what I have endured."

Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, declined to say what restrictions Mr Mohamed may face.

"I don't think it is for me to announce the details of that," he told reporters. "What I can say is that at all times the security of the country will be protected.

"Of course, we have got to look at the details of the arrangements, but at all times the security of the British people comes first."

Mr Brown said he would not publish US documents on Mr Mohamed's treatment in captivity, adding: "I think the important thing about intelligence information is that you share it with other countries on the basis it remains confidential." (END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.