news.bbc.co.uk - 2/11/2009
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Lawyers acting for a UK resident being held at Guantanamo Bay are launching a new High Court bid to have alleged evidence of torture made public. Binyam Mohamed, 30, says he was tortured before being flown to the US detention camp in Cuba. Last week, judges refused to order the disclosure of a ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 2/12/2009
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news.bbc.co.uk —
A Dutch MP who called the Koran a
"fascist book" has been sent back to the Netherlands...
after attempting to defy a ban on entering the UK. Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders had been invited to show his controversial film - which links the Islamic holy ...
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BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Dutch MP refused entry to ...
guardian.co.uk - 2/5/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
The government was accused last night of hiding
behind claims of a threat to national security to...
suppress evidence of torture by the CIA on a prisoner still held in Guantánamo Bay. An unprecedented high court ruling yesterday blamed the US, with ...
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Evidence of torture 'buried by ministers'
independent.co.uk - 2/10/2009
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independent.co.uk —
Britain is facing its worst financial crisis for
more than a century, surpassing even the Great Depression...
of the 1930s, one of Gordon Brown's most senior ministers and confidants has admitted. In an extraordinary admission about the severity of the ...
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'This is the worst recession for over 100 ...
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Obama Punts His First State Secrets Case
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... The U.S. has denied the evidence against Mohamed was obtained by torture, but the BBC is reporting today that U.S. officials have actually threatened to stop sharing information with British intelligence about terror threats to the U.K. if Britain allows the details of Mohamed's alleged torture to be made public. The ...
Obama Punts His First State Secrets Case
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... The U.S. has denied the evidence against Mohamed was obtained by torture, but the BBC is reporting today that U.S. officials have actually threatened to stop sharing information with British intelligence about terror threats to the U.K. if Britain allows the details of Mohamed’s alleged torture to be made public. The ...
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