MI5 faces fresh torture claims
Updated on 27 May 2009
MI5 is facing claims that it colluded in the torture of an ex-civil servant suspected of terrorism.
Lawyers for Briton Jamil Rahman have written to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith claiming that she colluded in assault, unlawful arrest, false imprisonment and breaches of human rights legislation.
According to The Guardian newspaper, Mr Rahman says he was tortured over a two-year period in Bangladesh and two MI5 officers turned a blind eye to his treatment, leaving the room while he was severely beaten and return to resume their interrogation.
At one point he says his wife was held in the next room and Bangladeshi officers threatened to rape her.
A Home Office spokeswoman said his legal team had written to the Home Secretary and said the Government would respond "in due course".
The latest claims follow accusations by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, who said he was tortured in Pakistan and Morocco with the knowledge of MI5.
Last month Scotland Yard said it was investigating reports that the security services were complicit in the abuse of 29 prisoners, including Britons, abroad.
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