Date published: 2008/02/14
The BBC says:
A pilot wrongly accused of training the 9/11 hijackers is entitled to claim damages, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Judges said evidence suggested "serious defaults" in the decision to detain Lotfi Raissi in prison for nearly five months after a US extradition request.
The ruling means the government has to reconsider the 33-year-old's claim for compensation, which it had refused.
Mr Raissi wants an apology and says his claim may run into millions of pounds. The government has said it may appeal.
Another serious miscarriage of justice is laid bare for all to see. And unbelievably, if the same thing happened today, the outcome would be much worse, since thanks to Tony Blair signing over all rights of UK citizens to the US government in 2003, the US could now ask for the deportation of someone like Raissi just because they feel like it, without having to provide any evidence to a UK court, and then lock him up forever just because they feel like it, without having to provide any evidence to a US court.
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