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• Guantánamo detainee accuses UK agencies of complicity in his torture

  28-05-2023 18:35
  
  Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri wants to bring a case examining alleged role of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ in his mistreatment by the CIAA Guantánamo Bay prisoner tortured by the CIA has accused British intelligence agencies of complicity in his mistreatment in a new case before one of UK’s most secretive courts.Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is alleged by the US to have plotted al-Qaida’s bombing of an American naval ship, is seeking to persuade the court to consider his complaint against MI5,
  
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• Ibrahim Jama obituary

  28-05-2023 18:12
  
  My husband, Ibrahim Jama, who has died aged 72, was a dedicated campaigner for international recognition of the country of his birth – Somaliland.Although a de facto sovereign state, Somaliland is still considered by most other nations – and the United Nations – to be part of Somalia. A legal officer at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) in the UK, Ibrahim, like many of his compatriots in the diaspora, gave over much of his time to help the campaign for recognition, inclu
  
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• Lady Hallett, the woman who holds Boris Johnson’s political future in her hands

  28-05-2023 07:00
  
  Chair of the Covid inquiry has threatened legal action if the former PM’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries are not releasedWhen Boris Johnson finally agreed to hold a judge-led public inquiry into the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic, he showered praise on the eminent former judge he chose to lead it.“She brings a wealth of experience to the role, and I know shares my determination that the inquiry examines in a forensic and thoroughgoing way the government&r
  
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