Guantánamo Bay detainees to be paid compensation by UK government
Millions to be paid in compensation for prisoners who alleged UK complicity in torture and extraordinary rendition Former Guantanamo Bay detainees Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed and Martin Mubanga are expected to receive settlements over their treatment. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images/Reuters/PA The government will announce today that it will pay millions of pounds in compensation to former Guantánamo Bay detainees following weeks of negotiations between lawyers for the government and the former prisoners. Ministers appear to have decided on the advice of the security services that they could not afford to risk the exposure of thousands of documents in open court on how the US ,with the…
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