He said the officers had been tortured during their ordeal and were taken to hospital, thanking peaceful protesters and "foreign countries' ambassadors" for brokering their release.
Both men allege that they were tortured during their detention and that UK authorities were complicit in their ill-treatment.
Several alleged immediately after their release that they were tortured during their detention, among them two members of Bahrain's national soccer team.
Those who didn't successfully complete the crossing were found guilty of unauthorized travel and were frequently tortured during their time in detention.
Those who didn't successfully complete the crossing were found guilty of unauthorised travel and were frequently tortured during their time in detention.
When asked whether Tony Blair or Jack Straw should give evidence on allegations of security service complicity in CIA torture programmes during their time in office, she said it was a matter for individuals to justify their previous decisions to parliament, but added she acknowleged that ministers faced a "heavy responsibility" in such matters.
All those who took up arms against the United States are labeled "terrorists" and the full impact of the gutting of the Constitution under George W. Bush finally sinks in to them, as they are officially declared "enemy combatants" -- and hence don't even have the Geneva Conventions to rely on, during their subsequent imprisonment and hideous torture.
Also, a group of interrogators asserted that the courier's nickname was not divulged "during torture, but rather several months later, when [detainees] were questioned by interrogators who did not use abusive techniques".
A new focus and sharpness to these battles is heralded in Ndiku Mutua and 4 others v. the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: the recent court victory by elderly Kenyans seeking compensation for their alleged torture during Britain's suppression of the 1950s Mau Mau revolt.
In formalised procedures of this nature, very little attention is paid to child soldiers as perpetrators of heinous crimes by having killed, tortured and maimed during their period as a child soldier, sometimes even their own family members.
