MI5 facing five more torture investigations

By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Jonathan Evans, the Director General of MI5, launched a ardent counterclaim of the security services. Photo: AP

A comparison counsel in the bureau of Baroness Scotland, the profession general, has been study the cases of five British men purported to have been unlawfully incarcerated and tortured in Pakistan with the complicity of MI5.

Baroness Scotland is approaching to confirm this week either there is enough justification to impute the cases to Scotland Yard for a full investigation.

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Ali Dayan Hasan, a researcher for Human Rights Watch, pronounced he has been given justification from Pakistani officials that MI5 and MI6 officers knew about the woe but one after another to take piece - without delay or in a roundabout way - in interrogations.

Allegations of complicity in the woe of Britons have turn MI5s greatest predicament of new years.

There has been a recoil in Whitehall among the idea that human rights lawyers and Islamic activists are, maybe unwittingly, assisting the means of Islamic extremism.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph progressing this month, Jonathan Evans, the director-general of MI5, released a ardent counterclaim of the Security Service conflicting the "conspiracy theory" that it lonesome up the impasse in torture.

It came after Lord Neuberger pronounced that there was a "culture of suppression" at MI5.

Baroness Scotland called in detectives over dual cases last year, together with that of Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was tortured by the CIA.

An MI5 military military officer who questioned Mr Mohamed in Pakistan is the theme of the Metropolitan military exploration in to either he pennyless ubiquitous laws on torture.

Detectives are additionally examining the purpose of MI5 in the box of Shaker Aamer, an invalid of Guantanamo Bay whose family lives in London, and an MI6 military military officer is underneath review over a British proprietor illegally incarcerated in Pakistan in 2002.

The five new cases being deliberate embody that of a 24-year-old healing student, identified usually as ZZ, who was allegedly abducted off the travel and tortured for dual months in a construction conflicting the British emissary high commission in Karachi. Towards the finish of his detention, he says, he was questioned by dual British comprehension officers.

Four alternative cases being deliberate all concerned suspects rigourously indicted or convicted of impasse in terrorism.

Zeeshan Siddiqui, from Hounslow, west London, was arrested in Pakistan in May 2005. His lawyers explain he was interviewed whilst in a traumatised state on 6 occasions by British comprehension officers, together with a little from MI6.

Siddiqui, who returned to the UK after being clear of forging an temperament card, was placed underneath residence detain and has given disappeared.

Convicted militant Salahuddin Amin, from north London, has pronounced that after being tortured he was taken to a construction where he was questioned on roughly a dozen occasions by dual British men called Matt and Richard, who allegedly had pronounced they were from MI5.

Agents were additionally allegedly concerned in the box of Rangzieb Ahmed, from Lancashire, who was convicted of directing terrorism in the UK in 2008.

Mr Evans, who became executive ubiquitous of MI5 in 2007, but ran the ubiquitous terrorism territory at the time of the allegations, certified that British comprehension agencies were "slow to detect" US indignity of detainees after 9/11. But he insisted: "We in the UK agencies did not rehearse indignity or woe afterwards and do not do so now, nor do we cooperate in woe or inspire others to woe on the behalf."