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5th July 2003, 18:03
Britons face US tribunal
By Hugh Dougherty, Evening Standard
4 July 2003
A London man and another Briton face execution after being named as the first Guantanamo Bay prisoners to face trial by secret military tribunal.
Feroz Abbasi, a former student from Croydon, and Birmingham father-of-four Moazzam Begg are among six Camp Delta detainees who will be first to go before the controversial hearings.
Today the US government was facing a storm of protest. The men's defence lawyer will be appointed by the Pentagon, which also controls the judge and the prosecution, and evidence will be heard largely in secret.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/...ning%20Standard (http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/5603399?source=Evening%20Standard)
July 05, 2003
Lawyers furious as US builds death chambers
By Frances Gibb and Tim Reid
LAWYERS expressed outrage yesterday at plans to put al-Qaeda suspects, including two Britons and an Australian, on military trial in Guantanamo Bay. They would effectively be tried by a kangaroo court, stripped of all basic rights of due process that would be afforded in criminal courts in Britain or America, they said.
No charges have yet been levelled against Moazzem Begg from Birmingham or Feroz Abbasi from Croydon, although Pentagon lawyers are finalising the wording of the indictments.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-...-735449,00.html (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-735449,00.html)
By Hugh Dougherty, Evening Standard
4 July 2003
A London man and another Briton face execution after being named as the first Guantanamo Bay prisoners to face trial by secret military tribunal.
Feroz Abbasi, a former student from Croydon, and Birmingham father-of-four Moazzam Begg are among six Camp Delta detainees who will be first to go before the controversial hearings.
Today the US government was facing a storm of protest. The men's defence lawyer will be appointed by the Pentagon, which also controls the judge and the prosecution, and evidence will be heard largely in secret.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/...ning%20Standard (http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/5603399?source=Evening%20Standard)
July 05, 2003
Lawyers furious as US builds death chambers
By Frances Gibb and Tim Reid
LAWYERS expressed outrage yesterday at plans to put al-Qaeda suspects, including two Britons and an Australian, on military trial in Guantanamo Bay. They would effectively be tried by a kangaroo court, stripped of all basic rights of due process that would be afforded in criminal courts in Britain or America, they said.
No charges have yet been levelled against Moazzem Begg from Birmingham or Feroz Abbasi from Croydon, although Pentagon lawyers are finalising the wording of the indictments.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-...-735449,00.html (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-735449,00.html)