Guantanamo Britons on plane home (BBC)

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Tuesday, 9 March, 2004, 13:53 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3545033.stm

Five Britons held in Guantanamo Bay as terrorism suspects for two years have begun their journey back to the UK.

Speaking in the US, Home Secretary David Blunkett said anti-terror police would question the men on their return from Cuba.

"The evidence given by officials can, of course, be given anywhere in the world," lawyer Stephen Jakobi said.

"The testing of its veracity, however, would be different before a British court.

"The Guantanamo kangaroo procedures would give a far better chance of the innocent being convicted."

Under the Terrorism Act, they could be detained for up to nine hours while immigration staff or police verify their details and interview them, Mr Shaw said.