Fresh bid to expose CIA 'torture' case

Lawyers acting for a London resident who claims he was tortured before being flown to Guantanamo Bay were today launching a new High Court bid to have alleged evidence of his ill treatment made public.

A week ago two judges refused to order the disclosure of secret CIA documents on Ethiopian Binyam Mohamed, 31, who was arrested in Pakistan as a terrorism suspect.

Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones ruled in London that the dossier should remain secret because the US authorities had threatened to withdraw co-operation in terror cases.

The judges issued scathing criticism of the threat, saying it was "difficult to conceive" that a democratically elected and accountable government could have any rational objection to the summary of Mohamed's treatment by US agencies being published.

They said Foreign Secretary David Miliband believed there was a "real risk" that the potential loss of intelligence co-operation would seriously increase the threat from terror faced by the UK.