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Legal Week
February 19, 2018
Diaz-Rainey previously took a role on the Shipman Inquiry into the actions of GP serial killer Harold Shipman, while he represented soldiers in the Baha Mousa Inquiry into the death of an Iraqi man while held in British Army custody. He was also involved in the Al-Sweady Inquiry, which looked into theÃâà...
The Guardian
December 4, 2017
PIL, which has since closed down, represented the family of Baha Mousa, the Iraqi hotel receptionist tortured to death by British troops in 2003. The firm's Phil Shiner was subsequently prosecuted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and disbarred from being a solicitor over allegations linked to otherÃâà...
The Guardian
January 23, 2016
Baha Mousa was killed, not in the heat of battle, but at a British army base in Basra. The army's own official inquiry found that he had been denied food and water. His swollen and bloodied face bore the evidence of the beatings he had received and the “stress positions”, as the military euphemistically callsÃâà...
The Guardian
December 17, 2014
This is not another Baha Mousa or another Abu Ghraib, the defence secretary, Michael Fallon told the Commons on Wednesday in response to the al-Sweady inquiry report into allegations of murder and mutiliation by British troops into Iraq. He was referring to the death of a Basra hotel worker in BritishÃâà...
The Independent
September 10, 2013
New lines of inquiry linked to the death of a hotel receptionist who was interrogated and abused by British soldiers a decade ago are to be investigated by a specialist team. Hotel receptionist Baha Mousa, 26, was working at Basra's Ibn Al Haitham hotel in September 2003 when it was raided by BritishÃâà...
BBC News
December 21, 2012
A former Army doctor has been struck off the medical register after his misconduct over the death of Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa in 2003. Derek Keilloh, of Aberdeen, was a medical officer with the Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) in Basra when Mr Mousa died in British Army custody. The MedicalÃâà...
BBC News
September 8, 2011
An Iraqi man died after suffering an "appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" in a "very serious breach of discipline" by UK soldiers, a year-long inquiry has found. Its chairman, Sir William Gage, blamed "corporate failure" at the Ministry of Defence for the use of banned interrogation methods in Iraq.
Telegraph.co.uk
June 7, 2010
He said: ''I am on record in the aftermath of the dreadful events that led to the death of Baha Mousa, as saying this is a stain on the character of the British Army. It remains one until we have solved it.'' The former Army head said the hooding of Mr Mousa and the other Iraqis detained with him was clearlyÃâà...
BBC News
July 15, 2009
A long-running inquiry into the death of an Iraqi civilian, Baha Mousa, who died while in British army custody in Basra in 2003, has published its findings. Who was Baha Mousa? Baha Mousa was a 26-year-old hotel receptionist, whose wife had recently died of cancer, aged 22. He was arrested, along withÃâà...
