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news.bbc.co.uk - 2/4/2009

BBC NEWS | Politics | Ministers face torture pressure

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UK ministers must answer allegations that Britain was complicit in torture, a senior Conservative MP has said. David Davis said a High Court ruling on Wednesday alleged a British resident held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba had been tortured. The ruling also said the US threatened ...

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guardian.co.uk - 2/5/2009

Evidence of torture 'buried by ministers'

— guardian.co.uk — The government was accused last night of hiding behind claims of a threat to national security to... suppress evidence of torture by the CIA on a prisoner still held in Guantánamo Bay. An unprecedented high court ruling yesterday blamed the US, with ... (more) Evidence of torture 'buried by ministers'

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Tory MP demands torture statement
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Britain was complicit in torture. David Davis said a High Court ruling on Wednesday alleged a British resident held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba had been tortured. The ruling suggested the US threatened to withdraw intelligence help from the UK if details were released, Mr Davis claimed in the House of Commons. >The allegations relate to Binyan Mohamed, a British resident held in Guantanamo, who alleges he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan. Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7870049.stm

A Question Of Torture
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — This was bound to happen at some point: The allegations relate to Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held in Guantanamo, who alleges he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan. Mr Davis said a High Court ruling, which pointed to complicity by the UK and US authorities in his torture, was prevented from being published after the US put pressure on the UK. He said the US had threatened to withdraw intelligence co-operation from the UK if this happened. The former shadow home secretary raised the case in a point of order in the House of ...

You're Telling on Us?
Shakesville — by Shaker Sunless Nick Over here in Blighty, the Binyan Mohammed case is making depressingly minor ripples in the public consciousness. Mohammed claims that evidence used against him was obtained by the US through torture. I don't know whether it was or not. I don't know whether he's guilty of anything or not. What I do know is that purported evidence of that torture has been ruled inadmissible, and that: A US government letter to the Foreign Office warned of "lasting damage" to intelligence sharing if ...