Former Gitmo detainees sue UK to make evidence public

LONDON – Seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees were demanding judges Tuesday to order the British government to make public allegations that it was complicit in their torture.
The men are among 11 people suing Britain over its alleged collusion in their mistreatment overseas. Britain denies that it was complicit in torture overseas.
The men’s lawyers, due to address Britain’s High Court Tuesday, argue that previously secret evidence about the detainees must be heard in public. All seven men were released from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay without charge.
They claim they were abused while in detention, and that Britain was aware or involved in their mistreatment.
Binyam Mohamed – an Ethiopian who moved to Britain as a teenager – is among the seven men involved in the case. He claims he was tortured in Pakistan and Morocco after he was arrested in 2002, and that British intelligence officers were aware of his mistreatment.
Lawyers claim that documents in the cases show that British intelligence staff questioned the men in detention, or supplied questions for others to do so.
Britain’s government has long acknowledged that officers from Britain’s military, or MI5 and MI6 intelligence agencies, interviewed dozens of detainees overseas in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. - AP