[IMC-UK-Features] Feature Article Proposal: Binyam Mohamed — the last UK resident in Guantanamo Bay threatened with death penalty

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Hi

I have drafted an article for the UK, Sheffield and Terror
War pages and it's on the wiki here:

  https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkBinyamMohamed

And the text of it folows. It's more-or-less a copy and
paste job based on Andy Worthington's excellent articles
so I have copied this to him in case he has any
comments... I'm not much of a writer so I'm sure it could
be improved...

Chris

  Binyam Mohamed — the last UK resident in Guantánamo Bay
  threatened with death penalty 

  The 11th June Sheffield Guantánamo protest highlighted
  the case of Binyam Mohamed who, after years of torture
  is facing the threat of the death penalty. On 31 May
  over 100 people attended a public meeting concerning his
  plight and Reprive have organised a protest in Trafalgar
  Square to take place on Sunday 15th June to highlight
  the suffering of Binyam Mohamed. The London Guantánamo
  Campaign are asking for urgent action to be taken for
  Binyam Mohamed.

  Articles: Urgent appeal for British resident Binyam
  Mohamed, “close to suicide” in Guantánamo | Guantánamo:
  Torture victim Binyam Mohamed sues British government
  for evidence | Binyam Mohamed’s letter from Guantánamo
  to Gordon Brown | Meeting Report: Binyam Mohamed: The
  Last Londoner in Guantánamo Bay | Take URGENT ACTION for
  Binyam Mohamed! | New report details torture of
  Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed

  Links: Cageprisoners.com | The National Guantanamo
  Coalition | Reprieve | Andy Worthington

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  Binyam Mohamed a refugee from Ethiopia, who was granted
  indefinite leave to remain in the UK, was siezed in
  Pakistan and rendered to Morocco where he was held for
  18 months and subjected to horrendous torture, which,
  included, but was not limited to having his penis cut
  with a razor on a regular basis. After Morocco, Binyam
  was transferred to Afghanistan, where he endured further
  torture at the CIA run “Dark Prison”, from there he was
  moved to Bagram airbase and then finally put on a plane
  to Guantánamo in September 2004, two and a half years
  after his ordeal began.

  Last December it was reported that close to suicide and
  in May he wrote to Gordon Brown and pointed out that "my
  Moroccan torturers were using information supplied by
  British intelligence" and he also sued the British
  government for refusing to provide evidence that may
  assist in his defence at Guantánamo. This month
  Reprieve, issued a detailed and devastating report,
  Human Cargo: Binyam Mohamed and the Rendition Frequent
  Flier Programme (PDF), which presents compelling
  evidence of his rendition and torture. Last week the
  Pentagon officially filed charges against Binyam
  Mohamed, who will face a trial by Military Commission
  for “conspiracy” and “providing material support for
  terrorism”, and a UK court approved his request for
  judicial review, requiring the British government to
  reveal whatever evidence it holds regarding the British
  security services’ knowledge of his rendition from
  Pakistan to Morocco for torture, and details of whatever
  information was also provided to his Moroccan torturers
  about his life in Britain.