Binyam Mohamed launches legal fight to stop US destroying torture images

[Solly Mack]

I haven't seen this posted but could have easily missed it over the last several days.


"Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp, the Guardian has learned. The evidence is said to consist of a photograph of Mohamed, a British resident, taken after he was severely beaten by guards at the US navy base in Cuba.

The image, now held by the Pentagon, had been put on his cell door, he says.

Mohamed claims he was told later that this was done because he had been beaten so badly that it was difficult for the guards to identify him.

Under US law, evidence relating to dismissed cases must be automatically destroyed. The only way to preserve the photograph is to have it accepted as a court document."

[Solly Mack]

1. kick

[ThomWV]

2. kick

[Echo In Light]

3. "Under US law?" ...ha, oh come now n/t

K&R

[slipslidingaway]

4. knr nt

[EFerrari]

5. K&R

[Solly Mack]

6. kick

[slipslidingaway]

7. kick nt

[Solly Mack]

8. Thank you

[slipslidingaway]

9. My pleasure....

there was a time when this would have already made the GP.

[Solly Mack]

10. Sadly, that's very true

[slipslidingaway]

14. nite kick n/t

[mmonk]

11. His case alone would open the eyes of American citizens

denial of our barbarity. However, only us that seek information and have remained uninfluenced of the pervasive propaganda since 2001 will know the truth in our closed society.

[Solly Mack]

15. and there is a lot of denial and pretending

If your security blanket (comfort zone) is built on a lie, how secure is it?

[mmonk]

21. It's not one at all.

But the willingly blind are adamant in their blindness.

[Luciferous]

12. K&R

[G_j]

13. that is awful!

I feel like I keep getting punched in the stomach!

[Solly Mack]

17. That's because we are getting punched in the stomach again and again

:(

We feel the wrongness of it all...and if you're like me, and I suspect you are...you feel as if you're drowning in it. I know I do.

[G_j]

20. well, yes..

we are fighters, it's not in our nature to give up,
to the last breath

[Horse with no Name]

16. Just when you think it could not get any worse...

It does.
Sad to not be able to K&R.

[Solly Mack]

18. Dismiss the case. Destroy the evidence of crimes against humanity.

Case closed. And in years to come, with the evidence destroyed, the US government can claim it didn't really happen.
Setting them free without ever really setting them free...no justice. no peace.

[Kaleko]

19. Cursing and kicking this to the top. n/t