UK court rules over detainee held by US troops

A British court has issued a landmark ruling that may lead to American forces releasing a Pakistani man held without charges for eight years.

The Appeal Court's ruling Wednesday said Britain has seven days to produce Yunus Rahmatullah.

American forces, who are holding Rahmatullah, are not bound by the British court ruling.

British troops in Iraq seized Rahmatullah in 2004, but then handed him over to the American forces who sent him at Bagram Air Base, the main U.S. military installation in Afghanistan . He's currently in US custody.

Although Rahmatullah is not a British national, the UK-legal charity Reprieve sued claiming that British forces were in breach of international law when they rendered him to U.S. custody without any explanation.

The Foreign Office says its lawyers are reviewing the judgment.

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