“Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed’s escape was an embarrassment. The alleged torture and rendition that came before it might just be a major scandal.”
The Guardian, 13th November 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK government is trying to prevent a former Libyan dissident and his wife seeking damages over its alleged role in their rendition to Tripoli in 2004.”
BBC News, 21st October 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“GCHQ is probably intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients, according to a detailed claim filed on behalf of eight Libyans involved in politically sensitive compensation battles with the UK.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One of the first cases to be heard by the government’s new generation of secret courts may be a claim brought by a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped along with his pregnant wife and flown to one of Muammar Gaddafi’s prisons.”
The Guardian, 21st May 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An official report into Britain’s involvement in rendition and torture since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US has yet to be published more than nine months after it was completed and delivered to David Cameron.”
The Guardian, 4th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An alliance of more than 100 human rights groups, legal experts and free press campaigners has called on MPs to vote against government plans for ‘secret courts’ – branding them “a charter for cover-ups” that will seriously undermine the principles of British justice.”
The Guardian, 3rd March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Libyan politician who is suing the former foreign secretary Jack Straw and the British government for damages after being kidnapped and taken to one of Gaddafi’s jails has offered to settle the case for just £3, providing he also receives an unreserved apology.”
The Guardian, 4th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The UK government has agreed to pay £2.2m ($3.5m) to a Libyan dissident and his
family who say MI6 was involved in their illegal rendition.”
BBC News, 13th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Last Wednesday the Supreme Court gave judgment in this case in which Yunus Rahmatullah, who’s being held by American forces in Afghanistan, applied for habeas corpus against the British government.”
Head of Legal, 6th November 2012
Source: www.headoflegal.com
“Where, on an application for a writ of habeas corpus, the court was uncertain whether the respondents had sufficient control of the applicant to be able to produce him, it could properly issue the writ so that on the return that question could be determined with fuller knowledge.”
WLR Daily, 31st October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Supreme Court has ruled that the law of habeas corpus should not be used to order the US to return a Pakistani national held in US custody to the UK.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 31st October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A UK supreme court ruling on the unlawful detention of Yunus Rahmatullah exposes the complicity of Britain with the US.”
The Guardian, 31st October 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“There are three cases, among the many decided by the Court in the past few weeks, which I would like to highlight. They deal with testimony potentially obtained through torture, forced labour and extraordinary rendition respectively.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 16th October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Britain must secure the release of a Pakistani man captured by UK special forces and held by the US in Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram jail without trial for more than eight years, his lawyers told the supreme court this week.”
The Guardian, 3rd July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Omar & Ors, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs [2012] EWHC 1737 (Admin) (26 June 2012) . The Divisional Court has ruled that common law principles cannot be used to obtain evidence from the Foreign Secretary for use in a foreign court.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 28th June 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Lawyers representing two Libyan dissidents who were abducted and flown to Tripoli to be detained in one of Muammar Gaddafi’s prisons have issued proceedings in the high court in London against the British government, the former foreign secretary Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen, the former head of counter-terrorism at MI6.”
The Guardian, 28th June 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers for two Libyan dissidents and their families are preparing to issue legal proceedings against Jack Straw and a former spy, it was reported.”
Daily Telegraph, 23rd May 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A former Libyan dissident who was abducted and flown to one of Muammar Gaddafi’s prisons in a so-called rendition operation mounted with the help of MI6 has started legal proceedings against Jack Straw, who was British foreign secretary at the time.”
The Guardian, 18th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In 2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were detained en route to the UK, and rendered to Libya. This is the story of their imprisonment, and the trail of evidence that reveals the involvement of the British government.”
The Guardian, 8th April 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Ministers are preparing to pay substantial compensation to a senior military commander in the new Libyan government who was abducted and sent to Libya at the request of Colonel Gaddafi eight years ago.”
The Independent, 10th April 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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