Compensation claims lodged against the Government by six former Guantanamo Bay detainees are likely to cost the taxpayer more than £30 million in legal bills, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
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Telegraph on 1st Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
What to make of the out-of-court settlement that has been paid to around a dozen former detainees of Guantanamo Bay? According to unofficial reports, taxpayers might have to shoulder £10 million as a result. One of the men is thought to be receiving £1 million. The explanation seeping out of Westminster makes it sound almost like a practicality. Security chiefs, we're told, were kee...
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Spectator on 16th Nov 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
The millions of pounds of compensation to be paid to the former Guantanamo Bay detainees will only be a fraction of the total cost to the taxpayer from their legal action.
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Telegraph on 16th Nov 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
The UK government has paid compensation to 16 men who were detained by US forces at Guantanamo Bay.
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BBCPolitics on 16th Nov 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
They sure do get around these bad apples - Abu Ghraib, Bagram Airbase, Guantanamo Bay. Looks like the Guantanamo boys might be going out with a bang. And a crash. And a wallop.…. Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards “get their kicks in”
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ChickenYoghurt on 26th Feb 2009 (via chickyog.net)
Seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees have embarked on an unprecedented legal battle against MI5 MI6 the Attorney General and two government departments accusing them of complicity in torture.
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Telegraph on 23rd Apr 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
REVELATIONS that former Guantanamo Bay detainees will receive millions of pounds in compensation after accusing the security services of collusion in torture is only the lates
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Scotsman on 17th Nov 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The ever inspiring Marbury points out that there are now 13,500 books in the library at Guantanamo Bay, serving the remaining 229 prisoners. And when the London based, pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat sent a reporter out there recently, he asked the...
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CommentCentral on 7th Sep 2009 (via timesonline.typepad.com)
Former newspaper editor Kelvin MacKenzie says he is appalled that compensation payments will be made to British citizens held at Guantanamo Bay.
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BBCPolitics on 19th Nov 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
THE battle by the security services and the government to keep evidence on Guantanamo Bay secret will go to the Court of Appeal tomorrow.
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Scotsman on 7th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Commenting on the release of a videotape showing a detainee being questioned by Canadian officials at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay, Sarah Teather said: "This depressing video again highlights the barbarity of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. To keep a 16 year old locked up without trial for years on end is a breach of every princ...
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LibDems on 15th Jul 2008 (via libdems.org.uk)
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