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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Read the Secret Torture Evidence Foreign Office releases Binyam Mohamed torture notes

by Philippe Naughton

February 10, 2010 "The Times" --The Foreign Office was forced to publicly admit today that the former Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed was effectively tortured while he was being held by the CIA in Pakistan.

In the latest judicial setback for the Government, the Foreign Secretary David Miliband today lost an appeal court bid to prevent senior judges disclosing secret information relating to torture allegations in the case of Mr Mohamed.

Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones had wanted to disclose a summary of US intelligence information given to British security services in May 2002 about Mr Mohamed’s treatment during interrogations by the Americans.

In an unprecedented attack on the judiciary, Mr Miliband had branded them "irresponsible" and had argued that to disclose the information would damage vital transatlantic security co-operation.

But three of the country’s highest-ranking judges today rejected both the minister’s accusations and his appeal and a few minutes later the seven paragraphs in question were published on the FCO, albeit in a redacted form.   READ MORE
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