A British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years will be returned to the UK on Monday, his lawyers say.
A British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for more than four years is on his way back to the UK, the BBC understands.
Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed, 30, says he was tortured while being held in custody on suspicion of terrorism.
Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed, 30, says he was tortured while being held in custody on suspicion of terrorism.
Charges against him were dropped last year, but a Pentagon spokesman said US authorities would not discuss detainee releases until they were complete.
Charges against him were dropped last year, but a Pentagon spokesman said US authorities would not discuss detainee releases until they were complete.
The Foreign Office has not confirmed when Mr Mohamed will arrive in Britain.
The Foreign Office has not confirmed when Mr Mohamed will arrive in Britain.
On Friday, the Foreign Office said he would be returned to Britain "as soon as the practical arrangements can be made".
It is not clear if he will be allowed to stay in the UK, but Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of terror laws, said he thought Mr Mohamed would be "given every opportunity, subject to the law, to integrate himself back" into society.
'Secret flight'
The US had accused Mr Mohamed of involvement in a plot to detonate a "dirty bomb" in America, but the allegations were dropped in October.
Mr Mohamed claims he was tortured into falsely confessing to terrorism and accuses British MI5 officers of complicity in his abuse. As a matter of long-standing policy, we do not discuss detainee transfers and releases until they are completed Cmdr Jeffrey GordonPentagon spokesman Profile: Binyam Mohamed
He alleges he was secretly flown from Pakistan to Morocco and tortured before being moved to Afghanistan and on to Guantanamo Bay.
The UK attorney general is consulting the director of public prosecutions over whether to order a criminal investigation into Mr Mohamed's torture claims.
Speaking on Sunday about Mr Mohamed's release, his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said he was "confident it will happen on Monday".
But his military lawyer, Lt Col Yvonne Bradley, said she had no confirmation of when her client was due to return to Britain.
Pentagon spokesman US Navy Cmdr Jeffrey Gordon said: "As a matter of long-standing policy, we do not discuss detainee transfers and releases until they are completed."
Mr Mohamed's lawyers say he poses no risk to the UK, and do not expect him to be arrested or detained by British authorities.
He had lived in the UK from the age of 15, before being arrested in Pakistan in 2002.
Earlier this year, he went on hunger strike for more than a month and was described by his legal team as "close to starvation".
However, last weekend he was declared well enough to travel back to the UK by a team of British officials who had visited him.
