(KUNA) -- A terrorism suspect, who alleges he was abused by British and American interrogators, lost a bid to pursue legal action against the British Government, a court ruled here Friday.
Omar Awadh Omar, who has been charged with offences relating to the July 2010 World Cup bombings in Kampala, Uganda, had his application for a judicial review rejected by a High Court judge in London.
The Kenyan citizen, described as a "well-known human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activist" in East Africa, alleges he was abused by officials after being "illegally rendered" to Uganda last September.
Omar, whose trial is due to start in Uganda on September 5, had launched proceedings seeking disclosure of information from the UK Government to "assist" his criminal defence "by demonstrating that he was unlawfully rendered, tortured and is innocent of all charges." But the judge ruled that his case for disclosure was "unarguable." However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... he announced that he would not yet make his order "final", giving Omar's lawyers the opportunity to return to court to make a new application if fresh evidence emerges at the start of his trial.
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I remember this guy. He was the one what got turned into a newt.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
