British police to investigate MI5 over Binyam Mohamed’s torture…
Attorney General Baroness Scotland, the main legal advisor to the British government, has authorised a criminal investigation by the Metropolitan Police into whether the intelligence agency MI5 was complicit in the torture of ex-Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed.
The decision follows allegations by British resident Mohamed that he was tortured in Morocco in 2002 with the collusion of MI5. Mohamed’s claims centre around an MI5 agent known to him as “John,” who was involved in his original interrogation in Pakistan. It comes after five months of deliberation since Mohamed’s case was first passed to Baroness Scotland in October. The investigation was approved after she and Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, scrutinised “substantive material” relating to the case, including the testimony of an MI5 officer.
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