UK High Court rules more evidence of Guantanamo detainee's torture claims should be published

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Source: CP

LONDON — More secret information relating to the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee should be disclosed, Britain's High Court ruled Thursday.

Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed claims the United States and Britain were complicit in his torture in Pakistan and Morocco, and his lawyers are pressing for Britain to release a seven-paragraph summary of U.S. intelligence files on his detention - a document he claims proves Britain's complicity.

Thursday's High Court ruling concerns four paragraphs in an earlier court judgment that the government says reveals the content of the secret material.

Lawyers for Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband have argued that releasing the sensitive information would harm Britain's national security. Lord Justice John Thomas and Justice David Lloyd Jones said the paragraphs, which relate to how Mohamed was treated while in custody, should not be kept secret.

"Of itself, the treatment to which Mr. Mohamed was subjected could never properly be described in a democracy as 'a secret' or an 'intelligence secret' or 'a summary of classified intelligence," they said in their ruling.

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But Thomas and Lloyd Jones said they didn't believe President Barack Obama's administration would take action against Britain if the information was put in the public domain. Despite the court's ruling, the controversial paragraphs cannot be made public immediately because the government has already said it is taking the matter to an appeals court next month.



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[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

"Of itself, the treatment to which Mr. Mohamed was subjected could never properly be described in a democracy as 'a secret' or an 'intelligence secret' or 'a summary of classified intelligence," they said in their ruling.


Well, not in a real one...not in a healthy one...not in one worth preserving.

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2. K&R

"The case has been unique. The judges have repeatedly lashed out at both the United States and the British governments for trying to conceal information, while taking the extraordinary step of encouraging the media to join in the legal challenge to disclose the information."

media's response:

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