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UK wipes hands of ‘renditioned’ US terror prisoner

Published time: October 31, 2012 14:02
Edited time: October 31, 2012 18:05
Yunus Rahmatullah

UK’s Supreme Court have ruled against a charity seeking the return of a Pakistani national who was handed to America by Britain to be held in prison without trial. The UK government earlier said it cannot get him back from US custody.

­Yunus Rahmatullah was captured by British troops in Iraq in 2004 in the wake of the coalition invasion into the country. He was handed over to the US as part of the notorious “extraordinary rendition” program, in which terrorism suspects are unlawfully taken into custody and held without charges for years.

British-based legal charity Reprieve wanted the UK to retrieve the 30-year-old captive, who is held at the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. It argued that Rahmatullah remains under UK control thanks to a "memorandum of understanding" with the Americans. They argued that the British government has the power to free him.

The lawyers invoked an ancient English common law procedure called habeas corpus, translated as “show the body” from Latin. It allows a court to summon an individual in person and examine the lawfulness of the detention.

After a long legal battle Reprieve, acting on instructions from one of Rahmatullah relatives, managed to obtain a writ of habeas corpus from a Court of Appeals in December last year. But in February, appeals judges canceled their order after being told that the US authorities were not going to "play ball" and that British ministers had "reached the end of the road."

Rahmatullah's lawyers challenged the reversal in the Supreme Court, but on Wednesday it refused by a five to two majority to overturn the decision and order the UK government further to seek the return of the prisoner from  US custody.

Comments (6)

juda 31.10.2012 20:01

This 'rendition' business is morally illegal as any incarceration shoul d be without representation or trial!  War has not been declared by Congress.  This is the games of the damn Zionists and NeoLibs!  Hundreds if not thousands of global young men are in prisons around the world without any form of justice and by only the 'say so' of some goon accusing 'terrorist'.  We now know with a substantial amount of evidence that 9/11 was NOT caused by any of these young men but most likely by the False Flag Zionist/NeoCon between the State of Israel, the U.S. & Sauds  for a reason to go to war all over the middle east.    We now know that the Zionists and NeoCons of UK and Israel  have caused much 'false flag' in the world.  And now that the U.S. has joined them over the last several decades, within such immorality, is disgusting.  And with a lot of research I've been doing, --don't think for a minute that the UK is the U.S. lap dog and it just may be the other way around! All of these prisioners should be freed!  They ARE NOT TERRORISTS  ---the so called free world is --so it seems.  It is the UK, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. that seem to be the betrayers of mankind, and not a new game at all. 

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laugh-at-hypocrites (unregistered) 31.10.2012 19:29

The Brits are so confused about basic morality they are chasing their own tails......Oh...Do I care about my heritage or not? ....Oh...Do I care about my culture or not?......Oh...What gender am I?.....

Yo! Brits!....A little advice about Muslim terrorists.......... ...When you take out the trash let the garbage man take care of it.......Don't bring it back in to your living room and dump it on the floor.


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duncan lucas-registered 31.10.2012 18:44

The  UK can get nothing back from the US=its Boss and servant. Even need permission to fire trident missiles.What else do you expect???

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