Ministers' admission links MI5 and MI6 to 'torture victim'

[Solly Mack]

Ministers' admission links MI5 and MI6 to 'torture victim'

Ministers have admitted the Government sent secret agents to interview a British detainee in Afghanistan, supporting allegations MI5 and MI6 officers were present while he was tortured by his American captors.

The admission is made in documents addressed to lawyers representing Shaker Aamer, 42, who has spent seven years in Guantanamo Bay. His claims are part of a growing body of evidence highlighting Britain's alleged complicity in the rendition and torture of at least 15 other UK citizens and residents.

He says he was sharing a house with Moazzam Begg, the British man released from Guantanamo in 2005, when he was forced to flee the US-led invasion. But he was captured by an Afghan militant group, which passed him to the Northern Alliance, who in turn sold him to the Americans.

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