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Guantanamo 'Londoner' in plea to No 10
Benedict Moore-Bridger, Evening Standard30 May 2008
A Guantanamo detainee who lived in Kensington for seven years has written to Gordon Brown to plead for his release.
Binyam Mohamed, 29, denies any wrongdoing but fears he could face the death penalty if charged with terrorism.
In his letter to No 10, he said he had considered suicide as a way of ending his ordeal, which began when he was detained in Pakistan in 2002.
He wrote: "I have been held without trial by the US for six years, one month and 12 days. That is 2,234 days (very long days and often longer nights). Of this, about 550 days were in a torture chamber in Morocco and about 150 in the 'Dark Prison' in Kabul. Still there is no end in sight, no prospect for a fair trial."
Ethiopian-born Mohamed said he had travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to kick a drug habit.
