The global detention policy of the United States and its allies is incubating the insurgents of the future argues Paul Rogers.

Binyam Mohamed, British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured two and a half years of torture at the hands of Pakistani agents, the CIA, and the United States’ proxy torturers in Morocco, before being transferred to Guantánamo in September 2004, has this week embarked on a hunger strike in protest at his impending trial in one of the camp’s military courts. Andy Worthington reports.

British agents are alleged to have questioned men at a Pakistani interrogation centre after they had been brutally mistreated. Ian Cobain reports.