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Reprieve sues the British Government over the two men rendered by the UK to Bagram

Reprieve reveals the likely identity of the second victim via press conference today; British Government tries to intimidate Reprieve into dropping legal action.After misleading Parliament and the public and forcing innocent families to suffer for six years, the British Government is now attempting to intimidate Reprieve out of filing suit on behalf of rendition victims held indefinitely at the notorious Bagram Internment Facility.The British Government has admitted to rendering two men to Bagram in 2004 but bizarrely refused to reveal their names; last year Reprieve discovered the first man?s identity. We have now identified the second victim, Yunus Rahmatullah (Saleh), who was apparently wrongly identified and mistakenly imprisoned.Reprieve is today (15th April) launching litigation on the preliminary claim that Saleh must be formally identified by the British Government if he is ever to be retrieved from this legal black hole...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).