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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Harry Davies Investigations correspondent

Second investigation to open into role of British spies in torture of Guantánamo detainee

Guantánamo Bay tower
The Camp 6 detention facility at the Guantánamo Bay US base in Cuba. Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images

The UK’s intelligence agencies are facing a fresh judicial investigation into allegations that British spies were complicit in the CIA’s post-9/11 secret torture and rendition programme.

The investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) has said it will open a second investigation into allegations that the intelligence services were involved in the mistreatment of a prisoner detained by the US.

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