article_snippet: Lib Dem Tim Farron said there was ‘no excuse’ why the detainee should not be freed and said the US’s behaviour was like that of an ‘extremist regime’.
article_snippet: Lib Dem Tim Farron insisted the West had ‘fallen short’ of the standards millions of people had died to protect in the 20th Century and said the West behaviour in setting up the camp was ‘exactly what Al Qaeda would have liked us to have done’.
article_snippet: In a statement, Labour MP John McDonnell said: ‘It is absolutely unacceptable that an innocent man continues to be to be subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment in absolute denial of an innocent man human rights remains in Guantanamo.
article_snippet: Liberal Democrat Tim Farron said there was ‘no excuse’ why Shaker Aamer should not be released.
article_snippet: Liberal Democrat Tim Farron said the US’s behaviour was equivalent to that
article_snippet: ‘of an extremist regime’.
article_snippet: ‘If Islamic State had a camp where they interned illegally for years without charge people innocent or guilty, in which torture, solitary confinement and inhuman treatment were daily occurrences, we would regard it as savagery.