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Pakistani man captured by British forces in Iraq released from US Bagram prison in Afghanistan after 10-year ordeal
Pakistani citizen Yunus Rahmatullah is released from 10-year detention by the US at Bagram airbase following a transfer from British forces in Iraq which the Supreme Court suggested could be a war crime
A Pakistani citizen held at Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan for a decade has been released, it was revealed yesterday.
Yunus Rahmatullah was held at the US airbase for 10 years without charge, trial or access to a lawyer after his capture by British forces in Iraq and subsequent rendition to Afghanistan by British forces in 2004.
After years of government denials that Britain had been involved in rendition operations, Mr Rahmatullah’s capture by British forces was finally revealed to Parliament in February 2009 by then-secretary of state for defence John Hutton.
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