LONDON: Sensitive US intelligence on former Guantanamo Bay inmate Binyam Mohamed should be published, Britain’s High Court ruled on Friday in a move condemned by the British government but welcomed by anti-torture campaigners.
In February, High Court judges said they would not release information on Mohamed’s treatment supplied by US intelligence. Washington had threatened to end intelligence cooperation if Britain released evidence about his alleged torture in detention, they said.
But in a new ruling on Friday, the same judges said there was a “overwhelming” public interest in now disclosing the paragraphs cut from their original judgment.
“As the risk to national security, judged objectively on the evidence, we should restore the redacted paragraphs to our first judgment,” they said.
Mohamed, an Ethiopian with British residence, returned to Britain in February after being held at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for four years. He accused the US government of inflicting “medieval” torture on him with British collusion.
