Confidential case notes were stolen from the charity's offices by an anti-Southall activist who had volunteered to help there.
The government submitted its legal brief in April, but the woman only recently gave her consent for the confidential case documents to be disclosed to The New York Times.
The investigation of this case took three years, in large part because of a dispute that rocked the ethics committee after the chief counsel in 2010 accused Republican-appointed staff members of improperly sharing confidential case materials with Republican lawmakers on the committee.
10 The two UK systems described above allow for surveillance studies of both maternal deaths and near-miss events, and for confidential case reviews of maternal deaths.
In Botswana, maternal deaths have been notified since 1998 by health facilities to the Ministry of Health (MOH), with confidential case conferences conducted quarterly by the National Maternal Mortality Audit Committee [ 6, 7].
Confidential case reviews, more commonly known as confidential enquiries, enable detailed examination of the quality of care of individual cases against national guidelines or accepted best practice by a multidisciplinary group of independent experts.
Specifically members of the Topic Expert Group do not conduct the confidential case reviews, but provide an additional cadre of expertise to ensure that both messages for care and messages for future research are drawn from the CEMM findings.
The key standards of care against which cases are assessed 13– 15 have been identified by the Topic Expert Group; the role of the Topic Expert Group additionally is to advise MBRRACE-UK on appropriate evidence-based actions to address the lessons learnt from the confidential case reviews once complete, and to peer review the resulting report and recommendations.
Though the US has never publicly released their allegations against Mr Aamer, the controversial campaigning website Wikileaks published a confidential Pentagon case file against Mr Aamer in which he was described as a member of a "UK-based al-Qaeda cell" and a close associate of Bin Laden who had "shown a willingness to become a martyr for his cause".
Hassay has refused to comment to the media, telling the local Action News Now, "This is a confidential student case.
