MI5 knew we were torturing British terror suspects, claim Pakistan agents

Pakistani secret service agents say they routinely tortured British terror suspects in their custody with the full knowledge of MI5 and MI6.

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The damning testimony is set to increase the pressure on Foreign Secretary David Miliband after he blocked the release of secret US evidence allegedly confirming torture took place.

The claim comes as former British asylum seeker Binyam Mohamed is expected to fly back to the UK tomorrow after being released from US custody at Guantanamo Bay.

In the past eight years, he claims he was flown to secret torture centres in Pakistan, Morocco and a US-run ‘Dark Prison’ near Kabul, Afghanistan.

He says he was beaten, chained, deprived of sleep and had his genitals cut with a razor.

Now, witness statements from Pakistani intelligence officials appear to confirm that British intelligence knew suspects were being maltreated, sometimes within hours of being interviewed by MI5 and MI6 officers. More