[LAF] Events And Issues Int No 117

[Ed McArthur]

Please Circulate
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London Guantánamo Campaign
Friday 6 June 6-7pm 
LCG event McDonalds, 291b Oxford Street, London, W1C 2DT (nearest tube: Bond Street) – near Oxford Street: McTorture and McJobs are both available at Guantánamo Bay: detainees have been offered "Big Mac meals" in return for confessions. Join us outside this outlet of a co-operator in torture
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TORTURED LONDONER FACES TRIAL IN GUANTÁNAMO MILITARY TRIBUNAL

The London Guantánamo Campaign condemns the decision by the US authorities on Friday to try Binyam Mohamed by military tribunal for alleged terrorism offences. 
 
Binyam has suffered six years of illegal detention without trial, of which eighteen months were spent in a Moroccan prison where he was subjected to the most appallingly brutal torture. "Evidence" extracted from him during that time is to be used in his trial. It is inconceivable that such a trial, before what amounts to a "kangaroo court", could serve the interests of justice, and it is deplorable that the US authorities should even contemplate this action.

 
The London Guantánamo Campaign also condemns the UK Government for its refusal to take steps within its power to assist Binyam. His lawyers claim that UK agencies hold material that would support his case that the allegations made against him are false and based on torture. The Government refuses to hand over this material.
 
It is deeply shameful that, in the interests of concealing its own apparent complicity in Binyam's treatment, the Government is prepared to see him subjected to a trial on charges that may ultimately lead to him facing the death penalty. 

Binyam's Consel, Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley, said "I cannot pretend that the US military commissions are fair, but how can we possibly hope to help Mr Mohamed if his own Government leaves him to his fate?" 
We call on the UK Government to avoid bringing any further shame upon this country, and to imediately take all steps within its power to help free Binyam from this plight.
2 June 2008 

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

Binyam Mohamed was born in Ethiopia in 1978 and came to Britain in 1994, where he lived for seven years, sought political asylum, and was given leave to remain. 

In 2002 he was kidnapped while in Pakistan, and handed over to the CIA who illegally "rendered" him to Morocco. After 18 months of interrogation under torture, he was "rendered" again to an underground prison in Kabul, before finally being taken to Guantánamo Bay in September 2004, where he has been held without trial ever since.

Today, as a result of almost six years of torture and abuse, Binyam is in an extremely poor mental and physical state, suffering from severe depression and post traumatic stress disorder.  A recent psychiatric report warns that he "is reaching the end of his psychological tether".  

The London Guantánamo Campaign campaigns for justice for all prisoners at Guantánamo bay, for the closure of the prison, and for an end to the practice of extraordinary rendition

Contact:  Christine, 07737 783 159

london.gtmo at googlemail.com
www.guantanamo.org.uk <http://www.guantanamo.org.uk/>  

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Events June 2008

Tuesday, 3 June, 6.30-8pm
LSE public lecture
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century 
Speaker: Professor Philip Bobbitt
Old Theatre, Old Building
Details: www.lse.ac.uk/events.


Tuesday June 3, 7pm 
STWC - RACISM, THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY
Speakers: Moazzam Begg, George Galloway, Anas Al-Tikriti,
Lindsey German, Louise Christian, David Edgar. 
Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London Ec2M, nearest
tube, Liverpool Street
 
Tuesday, 3 June, 6pm
Conciliation Resources
Power of Persuasion: incentives, sanctions and conditionality in peace processes
Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, SW1 (invitation only)
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Tuesday, 10 June 
The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, School of Law, University of East London
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH SEMINAR
On COUNTERTERRORISM, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL LEGALITY
Duncan House (Stratford High Street, London E15 2JB), Room 108
D r . C a r m e n D r a g h i c i  o n  c . d r a g h i c i@ u e l . a c . u k 


Wednesday, 11 June 7-9pm
Ministry for Peace AGM and meeting on 
Zimbabwe: hope and history in collision
Chaired by John McDonnell MP 
With Simon Fisher from Responding to conflict, an international agency
Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Westminster

Thursday, 12 June, 7.15-10.30pm
Haldane Society presents 
Revolution in Comedy with MARK STEEL and others
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, QC1
 
Friday 13 June, 6-7pm: 
US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 2LQ (nearest tube: Bond Street): Shut Down Guantánamo! vigil.

Monday, 16 June 6.30-9.30
Cageprisoners Exhibition launch CAPTIVATED
The Art of the Interned
with Moazzam Begg, Gareth Peirce etc. 
Venue; Gallery Together, 12 Old Street, EC1 (Barbican tube)
Fro details: contact at cageprisoners.com <mailto:contact at cageprisoners.com> 

Monday 16 June one day conference
Index on Censorship
Extremism and the Law – Free speech in an age of terror
Clifford Chanc LLP
10 Upper Bank Stret
Canary Wharf, E14
Contact: Jo Glanville jo at indexoncensorship.org
 
Thursday, 19 June
Haldane, Statewatch and CAMPACC 
First of series of 4 seminars on
“TERRORISM LISTS - PROSCRIPTION, DESIGNATION
AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The EU and UN ‘terrorist lists’ and the European Courts
The slow road to procedural justice
Jan Fermon (Advocate, Progress Lawyers Network Belgium); Mark Muller QC (Chair of Bar Human Rights Committee); Steve Peers (Professor of Law, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex); Ben Hayes (Statewatch)
College of Law, 14 Store Street, WC1 (Goodge St. station)
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Friday 20th June 6.30pm
Roj Women Association Reception
Opening of 5th Kurdish Women Festival 
Haringey Council, Civic Centre
High Road, Wood Green, N22 8LE

Saturday 21 June, 11-3pm
LCG Ladbroke Grove tube station, Ladbroke Grove, W10 6HJ (nearest June: Ladbroke Grove): a monthly stall to raise awareness about the plight of Binyam Mohamed, the last Londoner in Guantánamo, in his local area. For more details, please contact Sheraz: 07717 204 297/ al_musaafir at yahoo.co.uk

Monday, 23 June 7-9pm
CAMPACC monthly meeting
Camden Town Hall, Judd St, WC1
 
Friday 27 June, 6-7pm 
LCG US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 2LQ (nearest tube: Bond Street): Shut Down Guantánamo! vigil. 
 
 

 
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