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

[Andy Worthington]

Hi Chris,
I'm honoured, and grateful that you've been following my attempts to 
keep up with the story.
One typo: "Last December it was reported that close to suicide" should 
be "Last December it was reported that he was close to suicide".
Best,
Andy

cc wrote:
> 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
>
>   -------------------------------------------------------
>
>   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. 
>
>
>
>   

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Andy Worthington
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Andy is the author of "The Guantánamo Files: The Stories 
of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison"
(published by Pluto Press/University of Michigan Press)
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?page_id=17

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