From Government loses Binyam Mohamed torture appeal:

Foreign Secretary David Miliband has lost a bid to prevent the disclosure of secret information relating to the alleged torture of a UK resident.

Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed says UK authorities knew he was tortured at the behest of US authorities during seven years of captivity.

Mr Miliband had said releasing the material would harm national security.

But judges ruled the documents, which say his treatment was “cruel, inhuman and degrading”, should be released.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, said the court would now publish a summary of what the CIA had told British intelligence officials about Mr Mohamed’s treatment in 2002.

Mr Mohamed was secretly flown to Morocco in 2002 having been arrested in Pakistan over a visa irregularity and handed to US officials.

There, he says, he was tortured while interrogators asked him questions about his life in London that could only have come from British intelligence officers.

Government loses Binyam Mohamed torture appeal via BBC News.