{"id":285,"date":"2009-10-25T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harvardnsj.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2009-10-25T12:38:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T19:38:13","slug":"uk-high-court-orders-disclosure-of-torture-allegation-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/2009\/10\/uk-high-court-orders-disclosure-of-torture-allegation-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"UK High Court Orders Disclosure of Torture Allegation Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mary Ostberg, <\/strong>HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer
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On Friday, October 16, 2009, the United Kingdom’s High Court ruled that seven paragraphs of UK-U.S. exchanges detailing the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed should be disclosed.\u00a0 In reversing its 2008 ruling, the High Court called the public interest in disclosing the paragraphs \u201coverwhelming<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Mohamed, a British resident who was born in Ethiopia, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 for using a false passport.\u00a0 After his arrest, Mr. Mohamed was taken to Morocco and then to Afghanistan.\u00a0 In 2004, Mr. Mohamed was brought to the U.S. prison at Guant\u00e1namo Bay.\u00a0 Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft stated that Mr. Mohamed had been involved in Jose Padilla\u2019s plot to detonate a \u201cdirty bomb\u201d in the United States, but by the end of 2008 all of these charges had been dropped.\u00a0 In February of this year, Mr. Mohamed was released from Guant\u00e1namo and flown to Britain on the grounds<\/a> that he was a legal resident of Britain prior to 2001, when he left for Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mohamed claims that the CIA was responsible for transferring him to Morocco and that both the CIA and MI5 (Britain’s domestic security service) were complicit in the torture he received while detained in Pakistan and Morocco.\u00a0 Neither the United States nor the UK have taken responsibility for Mr. Mohamed\u2019s transfer to Morocco and U.S. officials have consistently denied sending terror suspects to countries with track records of torture.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Foreign Secretary David Miliband immediately expressed his intention to appeal the High Court\u2019s ruling, stating that he was \u201cdeeply disappointed<\/a>\u201d by the judgment and is concerned about its affect on future U.S.-UK intelligence sharing.\u00a0 U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said he supported Britain\u2019s decision to appeal and emphasized the importance of continuing \u201cthis kind of intelligence sharing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mary Ostberg, HLS 2012 NSJ Staff Writer On Friday, October 16, 2009, the United Kingdom’s High Court ruled that seven paragraphs of UK-U.S. exchanges detailing the alleged torture of Binyam Mohamed should be disclosed.\u00a0 In reversing its 2008 ruling, the High Court called the public interest in disclosing the paragraphs \u201coverwhelming.\u201d Mr. Mohamed, a British resident who was born in Ethiopia, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 for using a false passport.\u00a0 After his arrest, Mr. Mohamed was taken to Morocco and then to Afghanistan.\u00a0 In 2004, Mr. Mohamed was brought to the U.S. prison at Guant\u00e1namo Bay.\u00a0 Then-Attorney 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