Sunday, February 22, 2009

British detainee repatriated

The NYT reports that British citizen Binyam Mohamed will finally be returned to the UK after detention and interrogation in Pakistan and at Guantanamo Bay:

"At the time of his arrest, in April 2002, American officials said that Mr. Mohamed, who has a brother and two sisters living in the United States, was part of a conspiracy to detonate a dirty bomb on American soil. But he will leave Guantánamo without having been charged with any terrorist activity, or other crimes."

The full article describes Mohamed's past a bit as well as his experiences being detained - I have nothing to say except why and how does this continue? We know that people are being tortured and detained for no real reason, so why hasn't it stopped yet? Will it ever stop? Will we ever hold our government(s) accountable? Will they listen?

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