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Binyam Mohamed’s letter from Guantánamo to Gordon Brown

As the US administration prepares to charge British resident Binyam Mohamed in a Military Commission at Guantánamo, Andy Worthington reports on his last-minute appeal to Prime Minster Gordon Brown to intervene on his behalf.

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GTMO actions in London:Picnic tomorrow/Public Meeting on Sat. & June demos

Tomorrow (Friday 30 May), the London Guantánamo Campaign is holding a picnic in Grosvenor Square next to the US Embassy at 3-6pm with People in Common/On Saturday 31 May, we have a public meeting to raise awareness about Binyam Mohamed in Queen's Park, west London/ and the schedule for actions in June. Join us and let the British and American government know that victims of the "war on terror" have not been forgotten.

Guantánamo: Torture victim Binyam Mohamed sues British government for evidence

Lawyers acting on behalf of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident in Guantánamo, who was rendered to torture in Morocco and in a CIA prison in Afghanistan, have sued the British government for refusing to provide evidence that may assist in his defence at Guantánamo. Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” reports.

Sami al-Haj’s Guantánamo torture pictures

18-03-2008 19:53 | Guantánamo | Repression | Terror War | World

Legal charity Reprieve releases the first of four pictures by political cartoonist Lewis Peake, based on detailed descriptions of drawings by Sami al-Haj, the al-Jazeera cameraman imprisoned in Guantánamo, which were censored by the Pentagon.

Guantánamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham addresses European Parliament

04-03-2008 00:15 | Guantánamo | Repression | Terror War | World

Andy Worthington, the author of “The Guantánamo Files,” reports on a European Parliament meeting regarding the detainees in Guantánamo, and reproduces the testimony offered by former US military intelligence officer Stephen Abraham, the whistleblower who last year exposed the military tribunals as a sham.

Britain’s Guantánamo: control orders renewed, as one suspect is freed

23-02-2008 16:23 | Guantánamo | Repression | Terror War | World

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” contrasts the British government’s extension of control orders on alleged terror suspects with the case of Cerie Bullivant, whose control order was dismissed by a judge yesterday, because there was no “reasonable suspicion” that he intended to take part in terrorism.

Miliband on Diego Garcia and “extraordinary rendition”: Is this a joke?

22-02-2008 20:44 | Guantánamo | Repression | Terror War | World

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” notes that David Miliband’s confession about “extraordinary rendition” flights refueling on Diego Garcia does nothing to quell well-founded claims that the island has actually housed a secret “War on Terror” prison.

Guantánamo Britons’ Spanish extradition request: an update

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” reports on the latest stage in the Spanish government’s attempts to extradite Omar Deghayes and Jamil El-Banna, two of the three Britons freed from Guantánamo in December, on long-discredited charges.

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A letter from Guantánamo

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, tells the story of imprisoned al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj, and reproduces the text of a recently declassified letter from Guantánamo.

Gordon Brown urged to act for British residents in Guantánamo

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, reports on the presentation of a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, asking him to request the US authorities to return two British residents who are still held in Guantánamo, and also asking him to request that the prison be closed down.

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Six years of Guantanamo - Orange Friday National Events

After the US government declared war on Afghanistan, hundreds of people were kidnapped by the Northern Alliance and US military forces under "suspicion" of fighting for the Taliban. What was carefully hidden were the leaflets distributed among mainly Northern Alliance fighters and tribal leaders which encouraged them to kidnap anyone they suspected of fighting.. for a $20,000 dollar reward.

The Guantánamo Britons and Spain’s dubious extradition request

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison,” looks behind the headlines at the flawed intelligence fuelling the Spanish government’s request for the extradition of two of the three British residents freed from Guantánamo this week.

Urgent appeal for British resident Binyam Mohamed, “close to suicide” in Guantánamo

18-12-2007 14:13 | Guantánamo | Repression | Terror War | World

An appeal for readers to write to the Foreign Secretary David Miliband to demand the return to the UK from Guantánamo of British resident Binyam Mohamed, who, as his lawyer explains, "may be close to suicide."

Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington on Human Rights in The War on Terror

Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo Survivor and author of Enemy Combatant, Andy Worthington Journalist and Author of Guantanamo Files, a student from the Amnesty Society and Shazia Rashid from the Stop Islamophobia Society all spoke to a public meeting titled Human Rights in The War on Terror at Sheffield University on 10th December 2007.

Guantánamo as house arrest: Britain’s law lords capitulate on control orders

Andy Worthington praises the law lords for insisting on the rights of Britain's "ghost prisoners" to a fair hearing, but laments their refusal to condemn the control order system.

Guantánamo’s ghosts and the shame of Diego Garcia

A parliamentary committee is to investigate claims that the British colony - shamefully cleared of its native population to make way for a US base - has been used to hold "ghost prisoners" in the "War on Terror."

Sheffield Guantanamo Protest 11th October

Some photos of the regular protest against the Guantanamo Bay Camp X-Ray held on the 11th of every month in Sheffield.

The Guantánamo Transcripts: “Ghost” Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years

The Guantánamo Transcripts: “Ghost” Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years, And “9/11 hijacker” Recants His Tortured Confession

In another resounding demonstration of the importance of legally constituted checks and balances on executive power in the United States, the Associated Press, after filing a request to the Pentagon under the Freedom of Information Act, has secured 58 transcripts from the latest round of annual Administrative Review Boards at Guantánamo, convened to assess whether the detainees still pose a threat to the US, or if they are still presumed to have ongoing “intelligence value.”

Sheffield Guantanamo Protest

Some photos from, Sheffield Guantanamo Campaign's 11th September 2007 protest outside the Town Hall.

Belmarsh detainee Hedi Boudhiba: extradited, cleared, and abandoned in Spain

Cleared after three years' detention in the UK and Spain and abandoned on the streets of Madrid, the case of Hedi Boudhiba, a Tunisian refugee, raises doubts about the quality of pan-European intelligence and human rights protection in the "War on Terror."

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World Guantánamo Newswire Archive

Binyam Mohamed’s letter from Guantánamo to Gordon Brown

GTMO actions in London:Picnic tomorrow/Public Meeting on Sat. & June demos

Guantánamo: Torture victim Binyam Mohamed sues British government for evidence

Sami al-Haj’s Guantánamo torture pictures

Guantánamo whistleblower Stephen Abraham addresses European Parliament

Britain’s Guantánamo: control orders renewed, as one suspect is freed

Miliband on Diego Garcia and “extraordinary rendition”: Is this a joke?

Guantánamo Britons’ Spanish extradition request: an update

A letter from Guantánamo

Gordon Brown urged to act for British residents in Guantánamo

Six years of Guantanamo - Orange Friday National Events

The Guantánamo Britons and Spain’s dubious extradition request

Urgent appeal for British resident Binyam Mohamed, “close to suicide” in Guantánamo

Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington on Human Rights in The War on Terror

Guantánamo as house arrest: Britain’s law lords capitulate on control orders

Guantánamo’s ghosts and the shame of Diego Garcia

Sheffield Guantanamo Protest 11th October

The Guantánamo Transcripts: “Ghost” Prisoners Speak After Five And A Half Years

Sheffield Guantanamo Protest

Belmarsh detainee Hedi Boudhiba: extradited, cleared, and abandoned in Spain

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