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British officials are to visit a UK resident held at the US's Guantanamo Bay detention camp to help prepare for his return to the UK. British officials are to visit a UK resident held at the US's Guantanamo Bay detention camp to help prepare for his possible return to the UK.
Foreign Office officials and a Metropolitan Police doctor would visit Binyam Mohamed as soon as possible, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.Foreign Office officials and a Metropolitan Police doctor would visit Binyam Mohamed as soon as possible, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.
He said the UK was working "as fast and hard as we can" with the US to secure Ethiopian-born Mr Mohamed's return.He said the UK was working "as fast and hard as we can" with the US to secure Ethiopian-born Mr Mohamed's return.
The 30-year-old is the last recognised UK resident held at the camp.The 30-year-old is the last recognised UK resident held at the camp.
He had lived in the UK since the age of 15, but was arrested in Pakistan in 2002.
He claims he was secretly flown to Morocco and tortured before being moved to Afghanistan and finally, in 2004, to the US naval base in Cuba, where he remains - although charges against him were dropped last year.
Mr Miliband said Mr Mohamed's case was being treated "as a priority" in the reviews of all Guantanamo detentions ordered by US President Barack Obama.
The foreign secretary added that the UK had "long been concerned by reports of Mr Mohamed's medical condition", prompting the inclusion of a Met police doctor to check the detainee's condition.
Mr Mohamed's US military lawyer, Lt Col Yvonne Bradley, has said her client is very ill due to a hunger strike.
Intelligence-sharing
Lawyers for Mr Mohamed are also engaged in a UK court bid to have evidence of his alleged torture made public.
Last week, Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones ruled that some parts of papers referring to Mr Mohamed's detention should remain secret, citing a threat from the US to halt intelligence-sharing on terrorism.
They said Mr Miliband believed there was a "real risk" such a move by the US would increase the danger of terrorism to the UK, but the foreign secretary later insisted there had been "no threat" by US authorities.
When information is passed to any democracy governed by the rule of law it will be recognised that its courts might, in certain circumstances, order its disclosure Richard SteinLeigh Day and Co The Binyam Mohamed evidence row Mr Mohamed's solicitors, Leigh Day and Co, and human rights campaign group Reprieve now argue that the judges should reconsider their decision after being misled about a threat over intelligence-sharing.
"In court, disclosure was resisted because of US threats to downgrade the security relationship if it was disclosed," said Richard Stein, partner at Leigh Day and Co.
"Now it is said, by the foreign secretary, to be because of a mutual understanding about how intelligence material is treated.
"In light of the weight given by the court to the 'threat', that is a substantial difference.
"When information is passed to any democracy governed by the rule of law it will be recognised that its courts might, in certain circumstances, order its disclosure.
"One of those circumstances would be where, as in this case, it discloses evidence of torture."
The US denies that evidence against Mr Mohamed was obtained through torture.