And yet for another year families will have to live with “this thoroughly offensive practice” for another year fathers will be torn from children and for another year wives will live without their husbands.

Bary is an Egyptian citizen born in 1960 and a criminal defence lawyer by profession.

Nearly a decade in UK prisons without charge or trial, Detainee U is described by those who know him as one of the kindest, most patient individuals who has suffered imprisonment and isolation for so long. Please try and attend his latest hearing or at the very least spread the word.