The UK government’s raid of a lawyer’s office in the case of a Guantanamo Bay suspect allegedly tortured by the CIA with UK knowledge is “extremely troubling”, the High Court has heard.
Security officers seized documents in January from the office of Rachel Toney, a security-cleared lawyer who was representing the interests of alleged al-Qaeda chief Abu Faraj al-Libi, born al-Uzaybi, in secret hearings involving claims of complicity by the UK intelligence services in his torture.
