"Internment, non-jury trials? The precedent was set in Ireland by Eamon De Valera and Gerald Boland in January 1940."
Both commonly used by Britain in regard to Ireland - and I don't exactly believe Guantanamo is an overseas branch of Butlins.
A recent programme on interrogation methods used by Britain while detaining suspects showed that they constituted torture and were first developed in Kenya for use on Mau Mau suspects
Britain has recently payed a large sum in compensation to detainees who were castrated while under detention.
Jim Carroll