Sarah meets Binyam Mohamed and Moazzam Begg at Cageprisoner event. (Slough Liberal Democrats)

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Sarah meets Binyam Mohamed and Moazzam Begg at Cageprisoner event.

September 7, 2009 10:43 AM
Originally published by Sarah Ludford MEP

Sarah pictured with Binyam Mohamed and Moazzam Begg at the Cageprisoner fundraising event

Sarah attended an iftar Ramadhan fundraising dinner on August 30th hosted by the group Cageprisoner which is concerned with detainees held at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Sarah has long campaigned on the right to a fair trial or release for illegally held detainees and for accountability for the role of European governments, firstly as the European Parliament's rapporteur on Guantanamo and then as vice-chair of the European Parliament's 2007 inquiry into extraordinary rendition and torture. Along with Liberal Democrats at Westminster she insists on an independent inquiry on the role played by the UK government and intelligence services, so we finally get the full truth. She is pictured with Moazzam Begg, released in 2005 after 3 years, and Binyam Mohamed who was only released earlier this year. Binyam made his first public speech since his release and called for the release of the remaining prisoners being held without trial.