Some of the five released back to Britain spent time at Paddington Green police station – why was that?
The two solicitors, Gareth Peirce and Greg Powell, both said there was no attempt to ask them anything. Just to let them go would have been the same as admitting that they had been held for two years for no reason. This just embittered them more, because it made them feel the authorities were trying to show them as dangerous. The plight of those at Guantanamo has been compared with those detained here at Belmarsh under the terrorism legislation. What do you think of the comparison? It’s the same business of using dodgy information against people who have no way of refuting it. It’s extraordinary that the authorities think they can get away with it and that we won’t protest. The sad thing is that there haven’t been more protests about Belmarsh. In a way I am more pessimistic about Belmarsh than about Guantanamo because I think the international row about Guantanamo means these people are going to be released. What do you think will happen to the people who are left in Guantanamo Bay now
