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Binyam Mohamed Released from Guantanamo Bay
By: Masha Medvedkov
Posted: Feb 23 09
Witnessed: 1982 times
Regions: Cuba, Great Britain, United States
Issues: Detention, Prisons, Torture
Tags: abuse, Binyam Mohamed, gitmo, guantanamo, interrogation, prisoner
A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay is to be the first detainee to be released since Barack Obama assumed the presidency.
Binyam Mohamed was detained in Pakistan in 2002 - and there have been claims that MI5 officers were complicit in his torture.
Sky's Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lisa Holland reports.
( This video was originally uploaded on YouTube by
Sky News here . )
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