Camp X-ray Briton loses court battle
British Taliban suspect Feroz Abbasi has lost a High Court battle over the conditions of his detention by the US at Camp X-Ray.
Lawyers for Abbasi and his mother, nurse Zumrati Juma, from Croydon, submitted to a judge he is being held at the Cuba centre in a manner that "violates" his rights under international law.
After hearing argument from their QC, Edward Fitzgerald, and on behalf of the British government, Mr Justice Richards rejected an application for judicial review by Abassi and his mother.
The judge said: "The challenge seeks to involve this court in an area of international relations and foreign policy for which the judicial process is manifestly unsuited."
Mrs Juma has called on Tony Blair to persuade the US to hand her 22-year-old son to British authorities.
She claims he has been wrongly denied Prisoner of War status and that the British Government had "wrongly failed" to take up his case under the Geneva Convention and customary international law.
Mrs Juma further argued he has been wrongly interrogated by British security services in violation of international law and wrongly denied legal representation.
Abbasi is one of five Britons being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp after being captured by US troops in December after allegedly helping defend the last Taliban stronghold of Kanduz.
The court heard that similar legal challenges are expected to be launched at the High Court on behalf of the other four detainees.
