Binyam Mohamed will return to the from Guantanamo witin the week the US and British governments have agreed.
Binyam was tortured in Pakistan and Morocco on the instruction of of the UK and US governments. The US accused him plotting to 'attack the US with a radioactive bomb'. Sound fanciful to you? It was and is. Binyam's lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, does 'not expect' him to be detained on arrival in the UK. Let's hope not as he is innocent. [update 22:06 - Binyam is to be released without trial]
Binyam is a British resident who came to the UK in 1994 as a refugee from Ethiopia and sought political asylum. He was kidnapped (otherwise known as 'extraordinary rendition') in 2001 while in Pakistan. He has been on hunger strike at the Guantanamo torture centre and was being force fed by the US military.
Binyam was a convert to Islam and went to Afghanistan to see what an islamic state might look like. He was travelling back to the UK when he was kidnapped in Pakistan.
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