Guantanamo Britons to sue MI5 over ‘illegal interrogation’

Guantanamo Britons to sue MI5 over ‘illegal interrogation’

Eight men freed from Guantanamo Bay are suing the British Government for millions of pounds, claiming that it was complicit in the process in which they were detained and sent for interrogation at the detention camp.

The group have issued writs against MI5 and MI6 and said that the British authorities had knowledge of their illegal abduction, treatment and interrogation.

The eight men were detained in Afghanistan and Pakistan at various times. It is understood that they claim that the British authorities were aware that they would be removed to Guantanamo but nonetheless continued to co-operate with the Americans. The Daily Mail last night reported that two separate writs had been lodged by the group, with five Britons and three foreign citizens naming “The Security Services”, “The Secret Intelligence Agency” and “The Attorney-General” as defendants.

Mr Begg, who was arrested by the CIA in Pakistan in 2002, said that the case would centre on the “general behaviour and complicity in the abuse of British citizens” by MI5 and MI6.

Mr Begg, from Birmingham, told the newspaper: “It is actual involvement in some cases, in the process of interrogation, in the process of us being handed over. It is culpability by the British authorities in being involved in most of the process, their presence on every step of the journey before we got to Guantanamo.”

Comment:

I hope the truth comes out how human rights laws are violated as the intelligence community and governements collude to torture Muslims, whose only crime is to follow Islamic teachings