While secret evidence and Special Advocate procedures vary, they tend to have the same basic underlying features.

Similarly to Detainee W, Mouloud Sihali had been acquitted in the ‘Ricin’ case.

BB is 43 years old Algerian national, a qualified electronic engineer and married to an Algerian woman with three young children.

Abdul Baset Azzouz sought asylum in Britain from Libya. His children are British citizens and he was granted residency. He lived a regular life thereafter, safe in the knowledge that with Libya’s post-Lockerbie reputation as a marginalised pariah state, he would not have to return to risk his life.

The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by five victims of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program against Jeppesen Dataplan, a unit of Boeing. The six-five ruling adopts as a rationale the anti-democratic “state secrets” doctrine advocated by the Obama administration.

The Obama administration is in danger of entrenching some of the most draconian aspects of the Bush administration's controversial national security policy, warns a new report, [press release] from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released Thursday.

Eight men deemed to be a threat to national security can be deported, the Court of Appeal has ruled.