evidence of British resident’s Guantánamo torture must stay secret
Received:: February 4, 2009 | Category:: rorret
This afternoon David Davis, the Conservative MP and former shadow home secretary, said ministers must urgently respond to the allegations that Britain was complicit in torture. He demanded a Commons statement from the government on the ruling, calling it “a matter of utmost national importance”.
Davis said: “The ruling implies that torture has taken place in the [Binyam] Mohamed case, that British agencies may have been complicit, and further, that the United States government has threatened our high court that if it releases this information the US government will withdraw its intelligence cooperation with the United Kingdom.
“The judge rules that there is a strong public interest that this information is put in the public domain even though it is politically embarrassing.”
He told the BBC: “The government is going to have to do some pretty careful explaining about what’s going on.”