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Titolo: Guantanamo, Pakistan detainees plan to sue Britain

Guantanamo, Pakistan detainees plan to sue Britain
Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent
Reuters North American News Service
Apr 29, 2008 08:55 EST
LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - Lawyers for former detainees are preparing to
sue the British government and intelligence services for alleged
complicity in abuse of terrorism suspects by the United States and
Pakistan.
The cases, if they reach court, would be among the first anywhere to
examine alleged wrongdoing by spy agencies in the U.S.-led "war on
terrorism". Similar lawsuits in the United States have been thrown out on
grounds of national security.
Lawyers for eight former inmates of the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp in
Cuba are launching proceedings to sue Britain for alleged complicity with
their abduction, ill-treatment and interrogation, sources familiar with
the case say.
Five are British and three are foreign nationals living in Britain.
And Salahuddin Amin, a British man who is appealing against his conviction
last year for involvement in an al Qaeda-inspired bomb plot, is preparing
a civil action alleging British acquiescence in what he says was torture
by Pakistan's ISI security agency, his lawyer Tayab Ali said on Tuesday.
"The civil action will take the form of suing members of the British
government, establishment, who we feel are responsible for his treatment,
or who acquiesced to it at the very least -- failed in their duty to
prevent that from happening," Ali said.
"We have a list of individuals, some of whom are named, that we intend to
process against," he added in a telephone interview.
In an account of his treatment, published in The Guardian newspaper, Amin
said he was held for 10 months by Pakistan's ISI in 2004 and subjected to
repeated torture sessions, including savage beatings and being threatened
with an electric drill.
These were interspersed with interviews with two members of Britain's MI5
intelligence service, calling themselves Matt and Chris, at which Amin
said he would be asked the same questions, and give the same replies, as
in the preceding torture sessions.
Britain and the United States deny allegations by human rights groups that
they have "outsourced torture" by exploiting intelligence information
extracted from terrorist suspects held in countries where prisoner abuse
is rife.
British intelligence officers have questioned suspects held by third
countries, but "we never use torture under any circumstances and we never
instigate others to commit it", a security source said.
"We don't comment on individual cases but we do take our responsibilities
very seriously. All our staff ... are fully committed to complying with
the requirements of the law when working at home and overseas."
Amin raised the torture allegations at his London trial, which ended in
April last year, but was convicted with four others. British security
agents responded to his charges but their evidence was given in camera,
with the press excluded.
The Guardian said two other Britons formerly held in Pakistan on suspicion
of terrorism have alleged they were tortured there. One said he had three
fingernails pulled out with a pair of pliers. (edited by Richard Meares) 
Source: Reuters North American News Service 
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