A authorised gift has declared dual men who finished up in the barbarous "dark prison" at Bagram in Afghanistan after being handed to US forces by members of the SAS. The men were hold in Afghanistan after being seized by the British in Iraq.
The gift Reprieve pronounced it was suing the Ministry of Defence for refusing strictly to brand the men, who are from Pakistan. The MoD argues that if it expelled their names, even to their families, it would be in crack of the Data Protection Act.
The executive of Reprieve, Clive Stafford Smith, indicted the method of "rank hypocrisy" for refusing to give the prisoners their rights whilst at the same time claiming it was support the sequence of law.
David Davis, the former Conservative shade home secretary, who has additionally taken up the case, described the ministry"s warding off to recover the names as an "insult". "If they are bad people, discuss it us who they are. I think the reason we are not being told is since it is politically embarrassing. They merit a trial. We merit to know what the law is."
Reprieve pronounced it had taken years and thousands of pounds to find the identities of the dual men who were taken by the SAS in Iraq in 2004. It declared them currently as Amanatullah Ali, a Shia, and Yunus Rahmatullah, a Sunni.
It pronounced Rahmatullah, who is additionally well known as Saleh, is being hold in the mental health wing of Bagram and has been incompetent to hit his family or a counsel and was in a "legal black hole".
The British authorised assist complement will not concede his family to move a box since there is deficient explanation Saleh was the restrained rendered to Afghanistan, though usually the British supervision had proof, Reprieve said.
The gift expelled a matter from Rahmatullah"s mother, Fatima, in that she said: "As a mother, this is a on all sides that I onslaught to understand. My counterclaim to the British supervision is simple: discuss it me either you picked my son Yunus up and gave him to the Americans."
John Hutton, the counterclaim cabinet part of at the time, certified to the Commons a year ago that British officials knew about the send of the prisoners in 2004, nonetheless the supervision had formerly denied carrying any believe of the case. He pronounced they were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, (LeT) a criminialized organization that he pronounced was related to al-Qaida.
The US had positive him that the men were being hold in benevolent conditions and had entrance to the Red Cross. Hutton combined that the US had taken the prisoners to Afghanistan since of a "lack of applicable linguists required to survey them effectively in Iraq".
In a minute to Jack Straw, the probity secretary, expelled today, Stafford Smith says on a new revisit to Pakistan that he perceived justification that Amanatullah, a rice farmer, could not be a part of LeT, a Sunni nonconformist group.
In his matter last year, Hutton referred to allegations initial done in 2008 by Ben Griffin, a former SAS soldier, that British infantry had handed over to the US detainees who were afterwards rendered to Iraq. The MoD subsequently performed a gagging sequence preventing Griffin from observant anything further.
Davis pronounced he would be astounded if an incoming Conservative supervision did not set up an evident exploration in to this box and others where Britain is purported to have been concerned in the tip digest by the US of detainees to jail where they were expected to be tortured.
The MoD had in jeopardy it would find to levy costs if Reprieve took authorised movement opposite it, a move written to intimidate, pronounced Stafford Smith. "The supervision might think that bully-boy strategy will dominate us. In truth, they merely steel the resolve," he said.
An MoD orator described the dual men as "insurgents prisoner in Baghdad as they acted an needed hazard to security of the Iraqi people and the armed forces".
He added: "Reprieve were looking an declaration that the MoD would not aspire to them for costs if they lost, but were transparent that no in turn declaration would be provided. The MoD has thus declined to give them this assurance."
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