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| Guantanamo inmate 'released soon' | |
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| A British detainee held at Guantanamo Bay is to be released "as soon as practical arrangements can be made", the Foreign Office has said. | A British detainee held at Guantanamo Bay is to be released "as soon as practical arrangements can be made", the Foreign Office has said. |
| Binyam Mohamed, 30, will return to the UK after more than four years at the controversial US military base in Cuba. | Binyam Mohamed, 30, will return to the UK after more than four years at the controversial US military base in Cuba. |
| Foreign Secretary David Miliband said agreement had been reached between the UK and US governments on his transfer. | |
| Mr Mohamed, who was arrested in Pakistan, claims he was tortured into falsely confessing to terrorism. | |
| The Ethiopian-born detainee has been held at Guantanamo since September 2004. | |
| Earlier this year he went on hunger strike for more than a month, and was described by his legal team as "close to starvation". | |
| He was declared well enough to travel back to the UK last weekend by a team of British officials who had visited him. | |
| Mr Mohamed lived in London before his arrest in Pakistan in 2002. |