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Published: 08/11/09

Detainee Torture: Pressure for Inquiry Mounts in Britain

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
Detainee Torture: Pressure for Inquiry Mounts in Britain

The British government is under growing pressure to launch a formal inquiry into detainee torture. On Sunday -- for the second time in a week -- a parliamentary committee demanded the publication of guidelines given to security and intelligence agencies regarding the treatment of detainees abroad.Pressure for such an investigation has been building for some time. The most widely publicized case concerns Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who was detained by the United States government on suspicion of terrorism shortly after 9/11 and spent 6˝ years in prison in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco ...

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