Lt Col Yvonne Bradley, the military counsel for British resident Binyam Mohamed, will tomorrow meet with highest level government figures in order to plead for his release from Guantanamo Bay.
It is extraordinary for an American military lawyer to be meeting with the British government in this way.
Her schedule is:
10:30 Press Conference Room B in 1 Parliament Street, Commons Complex
To announce speakers and agenda fort the 4.30pm APPG
13:20 Meeting with David Miliband Foreign Office
To discuss the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay
14:30 Intelligence and Security Committee meeting – private
To discuss the case of Binyam Mohamed
16:30 All Party Parliamentary Group Attlee Suite
Submissions from Yvonne Bradley, Clive Stafford Smith, US politicians, UK politicians and intelligence officials.
Yvonne spent today at meeting Members of Parliament including David Davis, Patrick Mercer and William Hague, together with the Parliamentary Human Rights Group. She also met with Karen Buck, Binyam Mohamed’s MP.
For further information, please contact Katherine O’Shea at Reprieve’s Press Office katherine.oshea@reprieve.org.uk 020 7427 1099.
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