Bring Binyam Home

Bring Binyam Home Last week, judges ruled that foreign secretary David Miliband should reconsider his refusal to hand over secret information that could exonerate Binyam Mohamed, a London resident (and refugee form Ethiopia) who is still being held at Guantánamo Bay. Binyam's legal team belive that the information would show that he was tortured in Morocco. The US now intends to use the fruit of this torture in a Guantánamo kangaroo court.

Binyam could face the death penalty if convicted. The information held by the British government would probably also demonstrate that Britain was complicit in Binyam's torture. It is this, not national security, that explains David Miliband's reluctance to hand the material over.

Please email David Miliband on private.office@fco.gov.uk to tell him he must release this information and safeguard the life of the British resident. Please also tell David Miliband that it's time for the government to insist that the US sends Binyam home to Britain. The London Guantanamo Campaign suggests the wording below - please adapt this with words of your own:

Please make available, to the lawyers of Binyam Mohamed al Habashi, as requested by the High Court, material in possession of the British Government that supports Binyam Mohamed's account that he was rendered from Islamabad to Morocco in July 2002 to be tortured.

Please release any material relating to British involvement in his torture in Morocco for 18 months, in Kandahar, Afghanistan for 5 months, in Bagram, Afghanistan for 3-4 months and finally in his rendition to Guantanamo in 2004 and subsequent imprisonment and cruel and inhumane treatment.

Demand that the US drops all charges against him. Do not allow him to face the injustice of a Military Commission trial based on confessions extracted under torture.

The truth must be made available. It is contained in the information held by the British Government.

Binyam Mohamed has residency in this country.You should demand his immediate return to end his ordeal.

Please pass any response you get from David Miliband to richard@sacc.org.uk
Guardian report on Binyam's case: www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/21/law.guantanamo1 Press release for Reprieve, the legal charity that represents Binyam www.sacc.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=596&catid=45