British Court Orders UK Execute To Give Torture Evidence to Guantánamo Detainee

On August 21, 2008, the High Court in Britain held that a terrorism suspect being held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba had credible arguments that U.S. government agents had illegally taken Binyam Mohamed to Morocco and held him, there, thereby ordering the British government to turn over potentially exculpatory material in its files. The High Court found that because the U.S. government would not give the lawyers the information, the British government has an obligation to turn over potentially exculpatory material in its files...[more]