UK court order: release torture allegation details

LONDON — Seven secret paragraphs detailing the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee should be disclosed, Britain's High Court said Friday in a decision that could illustrate how deeply Britain was involved in the Bush administration's war on terror.

Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian who moved to Britain as a teenager, was arrested in 2002 in Pakistan. He alleges he was tortured there and in Morocco before he was transferred to Afghanistan and then to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2004.

The lengthy court case has hinged on intelligence documents detailing Mohamed's treatment. In their 2008 ruling, the judges ordered the disclosure of some intelligence documents but withheld seven paragraphs of UK-U.S. exchanges based on Britain's claim that the disclosure could jeopardize national security.

"We have ... concluded that as the public interest in making the paragraphs public is overwhelming, and as the risk to national security judged objectively on the evidence is not a serious one, we should restore the redacted paragraphs," Lord Justice John Thomas and Justice David Lloyd Jones said in their decision Friday.

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who has long said it is up to the United States to release the information, said he was "deeply disappointed" by the decision ...
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