Cageprisoners Press Release
US Government Admits to Holding 'Grey Lady of Bagram'

Press Conference
Time: 12 NOON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 2008
Place: FIELDEN HOUSE, WESTMINSTER, LONDON
Who: LORD NAZIR AHMED & REPRESENTATIVES OF CAGE PRISONERS
Subject: THE GREY LADY OF BAGRAM/PRISONER 650

Lord Ahmed and representatives of Cage Prisoners will be responding to some new developments over the mystery surrounding the so-called Grey Lady of Bagram, otherwise known as Prisoner 650.

Until recently, the US has denied keeping any female detainees in its airbase in Bagram, Afghanistan despite media enquiries to the contrary.

Lord Ahmed, who with Pakistan political leader Imran Khan, led growing calls for the truth about Prisoner 650 in response to a Cage Prisoners campaign (www.cageprisoners.com) has now received some official news from the US.

The British Peer will be discussing this latest development and further possible action. He will be joined by Cage Prisoners Director Saghir Hussain and Cageprisoners Patron Yvonne Ridley to give a statement and take questions from the media. A statement is also expected to! be released on behalf of Imran Khan at the conference along w! ith copi es of official US and British Government responses to Lord Ahmed's inquiries.

Moazzam Begg, former Bagram detainee and Cageprisoners spokesman, commented:

"As the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui gains wider public attention, the matter of US detention policy pertaining to women in Afghanistan is once again the focus of controversy and outrage. Since hearing the screams of a woman many years ago, when I was detained in Bagram, I have always believed that women held there were brutalised. I made this belief clear to visiting British intelligence agents at the time - so they too were aware. Despite recent repeated denials by the US administration of the existence of Prisoner 650, many of us imprisoned in Bagram prayed for a day when the truth would come out. That day is here."

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