The Government must disclose publicly all evidence used in a civil damages claim being brought by six former Guantánamo Bay detainees, the Court of Appeal ruled. Binyam Mohamed and other former prisoners are seeking to sue the Government for complicity in torture, and the Government and security services wanted to present information in secret in [...]
Lawyers for MI5 told a hearing: “Taken on face value it is difficult to see how that could be done without handing over the keys to Thames House” referring to MI5’s central London headquarters. Neil Garnham QC said that disclosing the material would “impose a cumbersome and costly distraction from the work of protecting national [...]
Mr. Secretary General, I have the pleasure to offer to Your Excellency my best wishes on the occasion of Nowruz and the beginning of the New Solar Year, 1389. I also wish to seize the moment to praise the efforts initiated by Your Excellency and members of the United Nations General Assembly for the international [...]
A number of press agencies reported on the existence of a letter that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on 13 April 2010. Early dispatches signalled that Iran was requesting a U.N. investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as the condemnation of the attacks inside Iran [...]
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