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UK to Conduct Torture Inquiry

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Tue Jul 06, 2010 at 06:25:00 PM EST
Tags: Mohamed Binyam, UK Torture (all tags)
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The UK today announced a formal investigation into whether British security forces were complicit in the torture of Ethiopian-born UK resident Binyam Mohamed and others. Mohamed was tortured by foreign interrogators, who were allegedly fed questions via the CIA.

Mohamed was initially held in Pakistan in 2002, and then moved to Morocco and Afghanistan, where he alleges he was tortured. He was transferred to Guantanamo in 2004 and released in 2009. Our prior coverage of his case is assembled here. [More...]

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