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US prisoner handover 'questionable'

By Brian Farmer, PA/The Independent, 23/02/2012

27 February 2012
Yunus Rahmatullah Appeal: British Handed Prisoner To US 'In Questionable Circumstances'

By Press Association/Huffington Post, 23/02/2012

27 February 2012
The great British betrayal of Prisoner B

For nearly eight years, the UK government has refused to even name him. Until we discovered his identity, he was a ghost detainee, known simply as ‘Prisoner B’.

24 February 2012
Top judge condemns UK government for failure to protect rendered prisoner Yunus Rahmatullah

A senior British judge today condemned the UK Government for handing over a prisoner to the US “in questionable circumstances” and thereby “[selling] the pass with regard to their ability to protect him in the future.”

23 February 2012
The US has broken its promise over Yunus Rahmatullah

The US has refused a UK demand to return one of its prisoners, so why should we send our citizens to face trial there?

23 February 2012
Yunus Rahmatullah case complaint lodged with Scotland Yard

By Ian Cobain, the Guardian, 20/02/2012

21 February 2012
Scotland Yard probes claim that Britain sent businessman to Iraq torture jail

By David Rose, the Mail on Sunday, 19/02/2012

21 February 2012
Bagram prisoner's bid for freedom rebuffed in UK

By Robert Barr, the Associated Press, 20/02/2012

21 February 2012
Reprieve reports UK Government to police for war crimes over failure to secure release of Yunus Rahmatullah

The British Government has been reported to the police over war crimes in Iraq, following its failure to secure the release of a prisoner rendered to Afghanistan and held without charge or trial for eight years.

20 February 2012
British Government in contempt of court of appeal?

Britian had the decency to withdraw from Iraq, and much of the chaos we caused has faded from the headlines. Until now.

20 February 2012
Court hearing today 0930 on Iraq rendition; UK Govt faces threat of war crimes investigation over Yunus Rahmatullah

The British Government could face investigation over war crimes committed in the rendition of prisoners during the Iraq war unless it can secure the release of a detainee from Bagram prison, Afghanistan, by this (Monday) morning.

20 February 2012
Six Days for Britain to Avoid War Crimes Investigation

By Cori Crider, the Huffington Post, 15/02/2012

16 February 2012
Six Days for Britain to Avoid War Crimes Investigation

MoD officials may imagine themselves immune from police investigation. They would do well to talk to Sir Mark Allen and the rest of the UK security establishment now under the microscope of Scotland Yard over the Libya renditions.

16 February 2012
UK Government has six days to avoid war crimes investigation

The British Government could face investigation over war crimes committed in the rendition of prisoners during the Iraq war, unless it can persuade the US to honour agreements governing detainee transfers within the week.

14 February 2012
Britain Shouldn’t Aid a Lawless America

By Eric L Lewis, the New York Times, 13/02/2012

14 February 2012
US may repatriate Afghan detainees

by Peter Finn and Julie Tate, The Washington Post, 24/01/12

24 January 2012
Judges: UK has 4 weeks to free US-held Pakistani

Associated Press, CBS News, 21/12/11

22 December 2011
Judges: UK has 4 weeks to obtain release of Pakistani man held by Americans

Associated Press, The Washington Post, 21/12/11

22 December 2011
US prisons target India for execution drugs

by Andrew Jack, Financial Times, 21/12/11 (FT registration needed to read this article)

21 December 2011
Judges: UK Has 4 Weeks to Free US-Held Pakistani

by Paisley Dodds, Associated Press/ABC News, 21/12/11

21 December 2011
UK requests return of US detainee Yunus Rahmatullah

by Dominic Casciani, BBC News, 21/12/11

21 December 2011
British government asks US to hand over unlawfully held Bagram detainee

by Ian Cobain, The Guardian, 21/12/11

21 December 2011
Britain asks US to hand over terrorism suspect held for seven years without charge

by Duncan Gardham, The Telegraph, 21/12/11

21 December 2011
MoD demands release of Pakistani man held in US

by Jerome Taylor, The Independent, 21/12/11

21 December 2011
UK Government demands return of Bagram prisoner Yunus Rahmatullah from US custody

The British Government has demanded the return of a prisoner originally detained by UK forces from the US-run Bagram prison in Afghanistan, where he has been held without charge or trial for nearly eight years.

21 December 2011
Watch Jon Snow on Channel 4 News report on the case of Yunus Rahmatullah

Speaking to Yunus's cousin, Munir Ahmed, Jon Snow reports on the historic Court of Appeal judgement in the case of Bagram detainee Yunus Rahmatullah.

20 December 2011
Family thought man held in Afghanistan was dead

Channel 4 News, 20/12/11

20 December 2011
Court of Appeal Orders Release of Bagram Prisoner

by Scott Horton, Harpers Bazaar, 19/12/11

19 December 2011
Yunus Rahmatullah: left in a Bagram black hole by US internecine politics

What is your most terrible nightmare? Is it worse than being trapped in a distant black hole, in an unknown country, unable to contact your family?

16 December 2011
Bagram black hole

by Muhammad Saleem Khan Allai, The News International, 16/12/11

16 December 2011
Two men left to languish in Bagram, Afghanistan

Almost eight years ago, the British detained two men in Iraq. They were Yunus Rahmatullah and Amanatullah Ali, although their names would remain secret for a long time.

15 December 2011
Free Yunus Rahmatullah, court urges

Press Association, 14/12/11

14 December 2011
UK 'must secure' release of US detainee judges rule

BBC News, 14/12/11

14 December 2011
Bagram jail detainee unlawfully held, court rules

by Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 14/12/11

14 December 2011
Watch Cori Crider talk to Jon Snow about a historic ruling in the case of Bagram detainee Yunus Rahmatullah

Reprieve legal director Cori Crider speaks on Channel 4 News about a historic ruling in the Court of Appeal, ordering the UK Government to reprieve rendered prisoner Yunus Rahmatullah.

14 December 2011
Reprieve wins historic legal action over rendered prisoner held in Bagram; UK government ordered to release Yunus Rahmatullah after eight years of detention without charge or trial

The British government was today ordered by the Court of Appeal to release a prisoner held without charge or trial since 2004 in the notorious US military prison at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan.

14 December 2011
A good day for habeas corpus

by Cori Crider, Al Jazeera, 14/12/11

14 December 2011
Yunus Rahmatullah's hearing: Take 2

I stepped inside the Royal Courts of Justice for the first time, about six months ago to hear the case of Yunus Rahmatullah.

25 November 2011
Hearing tomorrow 1030am Court of Appeal: Bagram prisoner Yunus Rahmatullah v British Government

Lawyers representing a prisoner held illegally at the US military prison at Bagram Airbase will today seek to force the British Government to secure his release.

23 November 2011
Pakistan Government due to report on illegal detentions by US at Bagram prison, Afghanistan

The Pakistani Government is tomorrow (22 November) expected to report back to a court on the illegal detention of seven of its nationals at a US prison in Afghanistan.

21 November 2011
Judge orders Pakistan Government to interview citizens held illegally by US at Bagram

A Pakistani judge has ordered the country’s Government to visit a US prison in Afghanistan in order to interview the seven Pakistani nationals illegally detained there – including one prisoner originally captured by UK forces in 2004.

21 October 2011
High Court Judges Refuse to Free Yunus Rahmatullah

BBC News, 29/07/11

29 July 2011
UK 'must help release detainee' in Afghanistan, High Court told

by Dominic Casciani, BBC News, 23/06/2011

29 June 2011
Foreign Secretary William Hague and Defence Secretary Liam Fox in High Court today over role in unlawful detention

Legal action charity Reprieve is today [1030 Thursday 23 June] taking British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Defence Secretary Liam Fox to court over their role in the unlawful detention of a man rendered to an Afghan prison and held without charge for seven years.

22 June 2011
Hague’s sincerity in question over rendition comments

In an interview with Archbishop Rowan Williams published today, William Hague agreed that extraordinary rendition is ‘absolutely’ a ‘line in the sand’ in terms of an ethical foreign policy. However, the Foreign Secretary’s own department is currently fighting in the courts against providing basic legal rights to Yunus Rahmatullah, who was captured by the UK in Iraq and rendered to Afghanistan, where he has been held without charge in Bagram prison for seven years.

10 June 2011
Government risks hypocrisy by using courts to oppose rights for Yunus Rahmatullah

Clive Stafford Smith, Director of legal action charity Reprieve, is today writing to the Government to ask them to drop their legal opposition to providing basic rights to a man captured by UK forces and held without trial for seven years.

25 May 2011
Reprieve launches legal action to force the British government to release Yunus Rahmatullah from unlawful detention in Bagram, Afghanistan

The British government’s Ministry of Defence will be forced to appear in court today to justify the ongoing detention without trial of Yunus Rahmatullah in Bagram Internment Facility, Afghanistan.

17 May 2011
Listen to this morning's Today programme on Reprieve's legal action against the British government

BBC journalist Hilary Andersson and David Davis MP talk about Reprieve's legal action for Yunus Rahmatullah, rendered by the UK from Iraq to Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan.

15 April 2010

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