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Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib | Legacies of 9/11
Moazzam Begg was seized in Islamabad in February 2002 and held at #Kandahar, #Bagram and #Guantanamo for nearly three years. He was released in January 2005 without ever being charged.
In 2014 he was charged again, over travel to #Syria. Those charges collapsed when it emerged MI5 had known of and consented to his journey. In August 2025 he was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a placard, one of more than 500 detained that day under the #UKTerrorismAct.
Now outreach director at #CAGE International, he joins Middle East Eye to examine what became of the cases that justified this era's laws.
Hamid Hayat, convicted in 2006 on the word of a paid informant, walked free in 2019. Dr Ali al-Timimi, sentenced to life in 2005 for a speech, was fully acquitted in March 2026 on free speech grounds.
Guantanamo is still open. Fifteen men remain. The trial of the man accused of planning 9/11 is now listed for 2028.
#WOT #AbuGhraib
Moazzam Begg was seized in Islamabad in February 2002 and held at #Kandahar, #Bagram and #Guantanamo for nearly three years. He was released in January 2005 without ever being charged.
In 2014 he was charged again, over travel to #Syria. Those charges collapsed when it emerged MI5 had known of and consented to his journey. In August 2025 he was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a placard, one of more than 500 detained that day under the #UKTerrorismAct.
Now outreach director at #CAGE International, he joins Middle East Eye to examine what became of the cases that justified this era's laws.
Hamid Hayat, convicted in 2006 on the word of a paid informant, walked free in 2019. Dr Ali al-Timimi, sentenced to life in 2005 for a speech, was fully acquitted in March 2026 on free speech grounds.
Guantanamo is still open. Fifteen men remain. The trial of the man accused of planning 9/11 is now listed for 2028.
#WOT #AbuGhraib