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The "cruel, inhuman and degrading" treatment of a Guantanamo detainee by US authorities has been revealed after Foreign Secretary David Miliband lost a bid to block the disclosure.
Binyam Mohamed, 31, an Ethiopian granted refugee status in Britain in 1994, claimed he was tortured while being held on suspicion of involvement in terrorism.
Now intelligence information relating to the allegations has been released after three of the country's highest-ranking judges dismissed Mr Miliband's appeal.
He had hoped to overturn an earlier court ruling that said summaries of information received by the British security services from United States intelligence should be disclosed.
The Court of Appeal decision was hailed by international media as a "resounding victory for freedom of speech".
The ruling by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger, and the President of the Queen's Bench Division Sir Anthony May, related to publication of seven paragraphs, which had to be redacted from High Court judgments already handed down.
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One of the key paragraphs - which were released after the decision was announced - stated that the reported treatment by the "United States authorities" of Mr Mohamed "could readily be contended to be at the very least cruel, inhuman and degrading".
Mr Miliband told MPs the ruling was leading to a "great deal of concern" in the US.
In a statement to the Commons, he said he had fought to prevent the release of the information to defend the "fundamental" principle that intelligence shared with the UK would be protected.
Mr Mohamed was detained in Pakistan in 2002 on suspicion of involvement in terrorism and then "rendered" to Morocco and Afghanistan. He was sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2004. Now back in the UK, he is fighting to prove that British authorities helped to facilitate his detention and knew about his ill-treatment in Pakistan.
