The UK government's policy of "deportation with assurances" was called
into question on Wednesday by decisions of the Court of Appeal of
England and Wales in two key cases.
Jordan detains and tortures political and security suspects.
Salah 'Ali Qaru finally emerged free from detention around midnight on 27 March. In nearly three years, the 27-year-old Yemeni was tortured in Jordan, flown from country to country, held for over a year in an unknown location and denied access to the outside world.
UK residents Jamil al-Banna, a Jordanian national, and Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, were arrested in Gambia in 2002, transferred to a US base in Afghanistan and then sent to Guantánamo.
'The Global Struggle Against Torture: Guantánamo Bay, Bagram and Beyond', 19-21 November 2005
