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Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:57 PM

Binyam Mohamed

Type: Person
Name: Binyam Mohamed
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 9 Documents (in Politics)
Britain's torture cover-up continues
The latest high court opinion in the case of Binyam Mohamed reveals Britain's commitment to covering up complicity in tortureIn the government's desperate commitment to cover up British complicity in torture, the drip-drip-drip of evidence seeping out ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
Gitmo evidence to stay secret
London - British spies can keep some evidence secret from former Guantanamo prisoners who are suing the government for alleged complicity in their detention, a British judge ruled on Wednesday, the first volley in a legal battle to expose what role Britain ... [News24.com - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
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MI6
Government has failed to hand over interrogation guidelines, say MPs
The group of senior MPs and peers responsible for scrutinising the activities of the intelligence agencies has sharply criticised the government for failing to hand over the guidelines provided to MI5 and MI6 officers for interrogating terror suspect ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/15/2009]
First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
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MI5
MI5 and MI6 push for secret hearings in 'torture' case
Britain's spy agencies began a High Court bid yesterday to keep secret any evidence of their involvement in torture.In an unprecedented move, MI5, MI6 and Ministers asked a judge to hear a case brought by seven former Guantanamo inmates behind closed ... [Mail Online UK - 10/27/2009]
Entities: MI5, MI6, Binyam Mohamed
First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 2 Documents
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Plans to outlaw rendition in UK
All party parliamentary group recommends criminalising the use of British facilities for extraordinary rendition flightsNew criminal offences to outlaw the practice of extraordinary rendition – secretly transporting terror suspects to places where they ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/05/2009]
First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
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Central Intelligence Agency
Torture ruling 'harmed UK security'
• Official wades into high court row with Miliband• Move to disclose CIA material 'erodes trust'A top Foreign Office official has accused high court judges of damaging Britain's national security by insisting that CIA evidence of British involvement in ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/12/2009]
First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)
Former Guantanamo detainees want U.K. files revealed
WINNIPEG (CBC) - Seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees are demanding that British judges order the release of classified documents they say will prove the government was complicit in their torture.Lawyers for the men are expected to address Britain's ... [Yahoo! Canada - 10/28/2009]
First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 2 Documents
Those in power tread a crooked moral line
Exercising power is tricky. Before you have it, you may entertain shockingly naive notions about how easy it will be, the way it will feel and what youre going to do with it.Naturally, you have fantasies of perfection. Choices, you think, will be simple. ... [Times Online - 10/26/2009]
First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Human Rights Violations in the Name of Fighting Terror
Graffiti artist Banksy strikes under an ever-snooping eye in central London to make point about the increasing surveillance of public spaces. Photo by Bill M. On 30 July 2005, Masood Janjua, a Rawalpindi entrepreneur, set off for a bus trip to Peshawar ... [Toward Freedom - 11/05/2009]
First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents
Reprieve appeals to lawyers’ sense of justice by asking for one hour’s pay
Reprieve, the charity that gives legal help to prisoners in Guantánamo Bay or on death row, is calling on lawyers to donate the monetary equivalent of their time.The ‘One Hour’ campaign offers lawyers a bill of costs form that they can use to donate the ... [The Lawyer - 11/10/2009]
First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
US court to reconsider CIA torture flight case (AFP)
WASHINGTON (AFP) A US federal court on Tuesday granted the US administration's request to reconsider a case that claimed a Boeing unit had participated in delivering terror suspects to secret CIA prisons.The move amounted to a major test of the government's ... [Yahoo! News - 10/28/2009]
First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Security services ask for secret evidence
British intelligence services made an unprecedented request to a High Court judge yesterday to use secret evidence in defending a civil claim alleging they were complicit in the ill-treatment of former Guantanamo Bay detainees.In a move that breaks legal ... [Times Online - 10/28/2009]

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...'He has to be taken to trial for what he has done all these seven years,' said Mohamed. "if there is any evidence that the prime minister was involved or knew about this, then he should be put to trial too." A number of British lawmakers - including the head of the main opposition Conservative party - are calling for a judge-led inquiry into the allegations...
Freed British Resident Detainee Seeks Justice for Alleged Rendition Mistreatment [VOA News - 03/13/2009]
...homecoming of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian refugee and British resident, who has finally been released after more than four years in Guantanamo Bay. "i have been through an experience that i never thought to encounter in my darkest nightmares" said Mohamed in a statement, read out by his British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith at a hastily arranged press conference...
A Prisoner's Tale - TIME [Time - 02/23/2009]

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Foreign Office mandarins rack up 90,000 expense... [Telegraph - 20 hours ago]
Britain's torture cover-up continues [Guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]
Britain was aware of CIA's barbaric torture tec... [Sify - 11/20/2009]
Miliband fails to hush CIA evidence [Guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]
Britain knew CIA tortured detainee [The Independent - 11/20/2009]
Court rejects David Miliband bid to suppress CI... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009]
UK court seeks 'torture' disclosure [Al Jazeera - 11/19/2009]
US treatment of Guantanamo prisoners is not &qu... [Telegraph - 11/19/2009]
Judges 'gagged' on torture claim [BBC - 11/19/2009]
Gitmo evidence to stay secret [News24.com - 11/19/2009]
Guantanamo detainees lose secret evidence battle [New Zealand Herald - 11/18/2009]
MI5 and MI6 get go ahead for secret hearings [Telegraph - 11/18/2009]
MI5 and MI6 given go ahead for secret hearings ... [Telegraph - 11/18/2009]
Evidence secerecy blow hits Guantanamo seven [The Independent - 11/18/2009]
Decision to allow secret proceedings in Guantan... [Amnesty International UK - 11/18/2009]
Secret evidence ruling in Guantanamo case [Kuwait News Agency - 11/18/2009]
Ex-MI5 agent sues paper for naming him [Guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
Ex-MI5 agent in memoirs battle sues newspaper f... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
Government has failed to hand over interrogatio... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/15/2009]
The Voiceless [The National Interest - 11/12/2009]
Torture ruling 'harmed UK security' [Guardian.co.uk - 11/12/2009]
Torture case judges 'put UK at risk' [Guardian.co.uk - 11/12/2009]
The Dispensable Nation [The National Interest - 11/11/2009]
Reprieve appeals to lawyers’ sense of justice b... [The Lawyer - 11/10/2009]
Homegrown Terror [The National Interest - 11/09/2009]
Repeating Soviet Mistakes [The National Interest - 11/06/2009]
Human Rights Violations in the Name of Fighting... [Toward Freedom - 11/05/2009]
Obama’s Mideast Failure [The National Interest - 11/05/2009]
The goverment must tighten the laws on rendition [Telegraph - 11/05/2009]
Britain: Reports state CIA “extraordinary rendi... [World Socialist Web Site - 11/05/2009]
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Britain's torture cover-up continues [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]
The latest high court opinion in the case of Binyam Mohamed reveals Britain's commitment to covering up complicity in tortureIn the government's desperate commitment ...
British Court Orders Release of American Tortur... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 10/20/2009]
In the ongoing battle over a redacted portion of a British court ruling that details the abuse and torture of Binyam Mohamed after being detained by the United States, ...
The Daily Wrap [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - 10/20/2009]
Today on the Dish our coverage was especially scattered. Greenwald and Reason reacted to news of the administration's move towards decriminalizing medical marijuana, ...
CNN Helps Mike Hayden Uncork A Fine Whine [Emptywheel - 10/19/2009]
Michael Hayden is at it again. This time it is CNN that has donated the bandwidth to his continued petty whining about the release of the OLC Torture Memos. After ...
Midday Open Thread [Daily Kos - 10/19/2009]
How's all that bipartisanship working out these days? While they await their health care overhauls, Congressional Democrats will this week try to make progress ...
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Sky News Sunday Live with Adam Boulton Episode 289 [Sunday Live with Adam Boulton - 03/29/2009]
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