Via Bush Wars, we read about Mahmoud Abu Rideh, who has been held for two years in Great Britain under anti-terror legislation that prevents him from knowing the evidence against him. He has not been charged or tried for any crime. He is one of 14 such detainees. He tells his story of despair in a letter that reached The Guardian.

"The British security services arrested me at 5.30 in the morning. They broke the door while I am sleeping and scared my children - I have five children between the ages of three years and nine years." He was taken straight to Belmarsh prison in south-east London, with no access to a lawyer.

"At 7 o'clock in the morning they told me that you are going to stay all your life in Belmarsh. There is a unit inside it, it is like a prison in the prison. They put me alone in a small room where you face bad treatment and racism and humiliation and biting and swearing.

"They prevented us from going to Friday prayers and every 24 hours there is only one hour walk in front of the cells and half an hour walking inside a cage. You do not see sun. You cannot tell whether it is night or day. Every thing is dark."