He knows only that he is accused of being connected with groups that “sponsor young Muslims in the United Kingdom to go to Afghanistan to train for jihad”.In 1991 he was arrested by the Algerian security services and tortured and in December of that year, fearing that he would be arrested again, left Algeria for Saudi Arabia.He later travelled to Pakistan from where he made a number of visits to Afghanistan. It is like the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.”Ms Peirce said G was now left in a “nightmare”, claiming the attempt to revoke his bail had been made on secret evidence, which “must be” wrong.The secretive nature of the hearing means that there is no opportunity to contest the evidence. His barrister, Ben Emmerson QC, said his client was under intense mental strain because of his house arrest and said that G and his wife regarded the ruling with “very substantial relief”.The case represents a further setback for the Government’s anti-terror policy. Mr Justice Collins, the presiding judge, said: “We are not satisfied to the necessary standard that the Secretary of State has proved a breach and, in the circumstances, we will take no action towards the revocation of bail.”The judge also made it clear that there was no suggestion that G had failed to comply with the conditions of his bail since he was released from Belmarsh last year when doctors had raised grave concerns about his mental health.G, accompanied by his wife, sat impassively in court yesterday as the judge ruled in his favour.
Under the strict conditions of his bail, G is not allowed any unauthorised contact with the outside world.But after a secret hearing in which government lawyers presented evidence of the alleged visit, the Special Immigration Appeal Commission ruled that Mr Clarke had failed to prove his case. The other four are: Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil al-Banna, Jamal Abdullah and Omar Deghayes.. THE HOME Secretary, Charles Clarke, suffered a humiliating defeat yesterday in his legal attempt to return a foreign terror suspect to Belmarsh prison. A secret court, sitting in central London, rejected the Home Office’s claim that G, a 35-year-old Algerian released under house arrest in April, had breached the terms of his bail.
Mr Clarke alleged that G, who is accused of having links with al-Qai’da, had allowed two men to make an unauthorised visit to his council flat in London. Mr Stafford Smith believes that a total of seven residents of Britain are being held in Cuba, but only five have been identified. Mr Stafford Smith is prevented from discussing what Mr Aamer said to him as this is considered a threat to US national security.Mr Aamer is currently being held in Camp 5 at Guantanamo Bay, where captives are held in permanent solitary confinement. In December, she was admitted to a mental hospital for two months.
The Government should help my son-in-law as they helped the British citizens who have been released from Guantanamo Bay.”Mr Aamer, 38, has been held at Guantanamo Bay since February 2002, after he was captured in Afghanistan. The American authorities have not disclosed the allegations against him.A Saudi Arabian, Mr Aamer had lived in Britain since 1996. His wife and four children, who live in London, have British citizenship Zinnira, 30, is now at home but is still unwell. Her children, aged between seven and two, are mostly cared for by Mr Siddique’s wife, Aalyia, who is disabled with arthritis.Like at least five other men who lived in Britain before being jailed at Guantanamo Bay, he has been refused government help because he was not travelling on a UK passport when arrested on suspicion of terrorism.The last four British citizens held at Guantanamo Bay – Moazzam Begg, Feroz Abbasi, Martin Mubanga and Richard Belmar – returned home last month. Mr Aamer, who worked as an interpreter in London, was visited in Guantanamo Bay last month by the human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith. “I was with him for three days,” said Mr Stafford Smith.”My impression was that he was really losing it He was mentally unwell.
