article_snippet.sent: Shaker Aamer is pictured right and left with son Michael and daughter, Johninh .
article_snippet.sent: Campaigners welcomed moves to end the scandal of Saudi-born Mr Aamer continuing to languish in the naval base in Cuba but said Saudi-born Mr Aamer detention was an ‘affront to civilised values’.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Aamer, who lived in South London with Saudi-born Mr Aamer wife and children, is the longest-serving UK resident in Guantanamo and has twice been cleared for release, by the Bush administration in 2007, and by President Barack Obama in 2009.
article_snippet.sent: Saudi-born Mr Aamer imprisonment is embarrassing for David Cameron, who said President Barack Obama had vowed to prioritise the detainee’s release after White House talks in January.
article_snippet.sent: Saudi-born Mr Aamer moved to London almost 20 years ago and married, securing leave to remain in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: In 2001 Saudi-born Mr Aamer was detained in Kabul while doing peaceful voluntary work for an Islamic charity, Saudi-born Mr Aamer supporters say.
article_snippet.sent: Saudi-born Mr Aamer was handed to the US military for money and tortured at a secret ‘black site’ prison.
article_snippet.sent: US intelligence claimed Saudi-born Mr Aamer financed Al Qaeda and was a key aide of Osama Bin Laden, an accusation that Saudi-born Mr Aamer vehemently denied.
article_snippet.sent: Despite being cleared for release, US officials are determined that Saudi-born Mr Aamer should be sent to Saudi Arabia, even though there are serious concerns Saudi-born Mr Aamer will face torture there.
article_snippet.sent: But the Foreign Office welcomed President Obama’s commitment to prioritise Saudi-born Mr Aamer case, saying: ‘We will continue to work with the US to secure Saudi-born Mr Aamer release as a matter of urgency.
article_snippet.sent: Then, a day before Christmas, we revealed how David Miliband, when Al Qaeda was Foreign Secretary, had secretly plotted to hand Saudi-born Mr Aamer to the hardline Saudi Arabian authorities while leading Saudi-born Mr Aamer British family to believe Saudi-born Mr Aamer was seeking to bring Saudi-born Mr Aamer back to the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Documents obtained by the Mail show the Labour government was involved in negotiations to transfer Saudi-born Mr Aamer from the camp to the Arab kingdom despite fears Saudi-born Mr Aamer would be tortured.
article_snippet.sent: In January, leading doctors warned that 13 years in Guantanamo – described as an ‘affront to humanity’ – had destroyed Saudi-born Mr Aamer physical and mental health.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Saudi-born Mr Aamerwas sent to Guantanamo Bay in February 2002 after being detained in Kabul, Afghanistan while, Saudi-born Mr Aamer representatives claim, Saudi-born Mr Aamer was carrying out peaceful voluntary work for an Islamic charity .
article_snippet.sent: – US-educated Saudi translator Shaker Aamer settles in London, marries Briton Zin Siddique .
article_snippet.sent: Saudi-born Mr Aamer takes family to Kabul and works for Saudi charity .
article_snippet.sent: Saudi-born Mr Aamer handed to US troops by Northern Alliance; taken to Bagram.
article_snippet.sent: Saudi-born Mr Aamer flown to Guantanamo Bay .
article_snippet.sent: Saudi-born Mr Aamer kept at camp .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Aamer cleared by US tribunals as safe to release but Saudi-born Mr Aamer is not freed .
article_snippet.sent: Foreign Secretary reveals US will only allow Saudi-born Mr Aamer transfer to Saudi Arabia, not UK .
article_snippet.sent: December 2014 - Celebrity backers including Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, TV presenter Janet Ellis and - Celebrity singer daughter Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and the actress Juliet Stevenson call for US President Barack Obama (pictured) to secure Saudi-born Mr Aamer release .
article_snippet.sent: January 2015 - US President Barack Obama (pictured) agrees to ‘prioritise’ Mr Aamer's case after talks with David Cameron at the White House .