telegraph.co.uk - 4/3/2009
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The pressure on the Government to investigate fresh allegations of complicity by British security officials in the torture of terror suspects intensified yesterday after MPs from all parties called for an inquiry into the claims.
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More Torture Cases In Britain
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
This is Tory MP David Davies in the Commons: "At the end of last week senior sources in MI5 and MI6 admitted that there were some 15 other cases similar to the Binyam Mohamed case. In these circumstances it seems to me that justice should be done in all cases, not just one."
Mr Davis added that in at least one case that had gone to trial there was an "admission in court by MI5 that they co-operated with the Pakistani authorities'' before a suspect had his fingernails removed. ...
Pressure grows on minister over torture claims
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... to the police, it was open to any member of the public to approach officers with further information. She was responding to a question from David Davis, the former shadow home secretary who now campaigns on civil liberties issues, who asked Mrs Baird why ministers had not asked the police to investigate the fresh allegations. He said: "At the end of last week senior sources in MI5 and MI6 admitted that there were some 15 other cases similar to the Binyam Mohamed case. Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/def...
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