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A LIBYAN couple who allege that the British government was complicit in their detention and torture demanded at the High Court today that material relied on by the director of public prosecutions be revealed.
Libyan militant Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar were detained in China in February 2004 and deported to Malaysia from where, they allege, they were sent to Libya.
Mr Belhaj, who in the 1990s was a member of the British-backed Libyan Islamic Fighting Group which tried to assassinate Colonel Muammar Gadaffi several times, claims he was tortured for six years.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury