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February 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Legal action charity Reprieve said the complaint relates to the case of Pakistani national Yunus Rahmatullah, who was arrested by British troops in Iraq in 2004 and handed over to the US, the daily Morning Star reported.
He was then renditioned to Afghanistan – possibly via the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq – and has been detained without trial at Bagram airbase ever since, the report said.
Under an agreement signed by the US and Britain the government retained the right to require his transfer back to their custody at any time.
But James Eadie QC told the court that the US had “effectively” refused the transfer.
Reprieve argues that the failure to secure Rahmatullah’s release lays the British government open to charges under the Geneva Convention over his torture, rendition and continued detention, which it describes as “an ongoing war crime.”
Reprieve’s executive director Clare Algar said the Britain had “sadly squandered an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past.
“But this is far from over. The British government’s failure to persuade its supposedly closest ally to honor agreements signed between the two countries has left it open to war crimes charges”, said Algar.
“The government now faces yet another investigation over its involvement in torture and rendition.
“British ministers clearly made no great effort to secure the release of Rahmatullah. But it has to be asked how anyone can claim the existence of a ‘special relationship’ when the US does not even seem prepared to raise a finger to prevent Britain from facing war crimes charges”, he added.
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