{"id":194752,"date":"2008-08-21T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/21\/uk-court-rules-that-british-government-must-provide-gitmo-defendant-with-evidence-of-his-own-torture\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T22:19:00","slug":"uk-court-rules-that-british-government-must-provide-gitmo-defendant-with-evidence-of-his-own-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/21\/uk-court-rules-that-british-government-must-provide-gitmo-defendant-with-evidence-of-his-own-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Court Rules that British Government Must Provide Gitmo Defendant With Evidence of His Own Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is good news from a legal perspective, but it bothers me, because  <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUKLL415920080821\">the circumstances are so Kafkaesque<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A British court ruled on Thursday that the government must disclose evidence to a defendant being held at Guantanamo Bay, a decision that carried with it implicit criticism of U.S. government detention policies.<\/p>\n<p>In its ruling, the High Court said Britain&#8217;s Foreign Office must provide Binyam Mohamed, a British resident detained in Pakistan in 2002 and now held at Guantanamo, with information relating to his time in detention.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers say the material supports his claim to have been &#8220;extraordinarily rendered&#8221;, tortured and forced into a confession on terrorism charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is good news from a legal perspective, but it bothers me, because the circumstances are so Kafkaesque: A British court ruled on Thursday that the government must disclose evidence to a defendant being held at Guantanamo Bay, a decision that carried with it implicit criticism of U.S. government detention policies. In its ruling, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,1102,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-intelligence","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}