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Mon 03 Mar 2009Call for inquiries into Mohamed torture case
THE BRITISH government is under fresh pressure to concede police and judicial inquiries into allegations that the security service, MI5, colluded in the torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed, who was released from Guantánamo Bay last month.
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats demanded referral to the police alongside an independent judicial inquiry after Mr Mohamed disclosed details of two telegrams from MI5 to the American CIA suggesting a line of questioning he says led to him falsely confessing to terrorist activities following his “extraordinary rendition” to Morocco.
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