SECRECY NOT A PLEA

SECRECY NOT A PLEA

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August 12, 2022

The British government cannot use secret evidence to defend a legal case brought by six former Guantanamo detainees over torture allegation, the Court of Appeal ruled. Three senior judges dismissed an attempt by MI5 security service and MI6 intelligence agency to suppress evidence of their alleged complicity in the torture and secret transfer of British residents to Guantánamo Bay. The six former British detainees are suing MI5, MI6, the Foreign Office, the Home Office and attorney general for playing an alleged part in, or for failing to stop, their detention and ill-treatment in the US camp.