UK prisoner's 'huge' injuries from beatings

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4:00AM Monday Feb 23, 2009
Mark Townsend

Binyam Mohamed .... will arrive back tomorrow in the UK, where he was a British resident between 1984 and 2002 ...

Mohamed was found to be suffering from bruising, organ damage, stomach complaints, malnutrition, sores to feet and hands, severe damage to ligaments as well as profound emotional and psychological problems which were exacerbated by the refusal of Guantanamo's guards to give him counselling.

Mohamed's British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, said ... "He has a list of physical ailments that cover two sheets of A4 paper. What Binyam has been through should have been left behind in the Middle Ages."

Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley, Mohamed's US military lawyer, added: "He has been severely beaten. Sometimes I don't like to think about it because my country is behind all this" ...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10558138

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1. So is there no evidence left over from his worst mutilation?

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