http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/10/31/torture-cannot-be-hidden-forever/ Author & journalist Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:47:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/10/31/torture-cannot-be-hidden-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-29975 Guilt by Torture | freedetainees.org Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:10:10 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=405#comment-29975 [...] and that the British intelligence services were at least partly complicit. On Oct. 30, it was announced that the British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had officially asked the attorney general, Baroness [...] [...] and that the British intelligence services were at least partly complicit. On Oct. 30, it was announced that the British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith had officially asked the attorney general, Baroness [...]

]]> http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/10/31/torture-cannot-be-hidden-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-29787 UK attorney general to investigate Binyam Mohamed’s torture claims « The Lift - Legal Issues in the Fight against Terrorism Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:11:26 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=405#comment-29787 [...] Andy Worthington: “The Home Secretary’s unprecedented decision was based on evidence uncovered during a judicial review of Mr. Mohamed’s case in the High Court this summer. This established that an MI5 agent had acted illegally when he interrogated Mr. Mohamed during his “unlawful” detention in Pakistani custody, but there is clearly more to the story, involving other evidence of the activities of both MI5 and the CIA. Much of this was only heard in closed sessions in the high court, when the agent was being cross-examined, but the judges also gave weight to an admission, on behalf the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, that Mr. Mohamed had “established an arguable case” that he had been subjected to torture in US control. [...] [...] Andy Worthington: “The Home Secretary’s unprecedented decision was based on evidence uncovered during a judicial review of Mr. Mohamed’s case in the High Court this summer. This established that an MI5 agent had acted illegally when he interrogated Mr. Mohamed during his “unlawful” detention in Pakistani custody, but there is clearly more to the story, involving other evidence of the activities of both MI5 and the CIA. Much of this was only heard in closed sessions in the high court, when the agent was being cross-examined, but the judges also gave weight to an admission, on behalf the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, that Mr. Mohamed had “established an arguable case” that he had been subjected to torture in US control. [...]

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