The Observer of London has seen an advance copy of a report by Human Rights Watch, to be released next month, which finds that the British domestic intelligence service MI5 had a “systemic” modus operandi in which different agents were deployed to Pakistan to interview different British suspects, many of whom alleged that before interrogation by MI5 they were tortured by the Pakistanis.

At least 10 Britons are identified in the report, which is based on sources within Pakistan’s intelligence bureaus. Human Rights Watch outlined its concerns last October to the Foreign Office but has not received a response.

In a separate article in The Observer, lawyers for Binyam Mohamed (pictured), the British resident still held at Guantanamo Bay, revealed the extent of the “dozens” of beatings he has received at the US detention facility.

UK agents ‘colluded with torture in Pakistan’
MARK TOWNSEND

A shocking new report alleges widespread complicity between British security agents and their Pakistani counterparts who have routinely engaged in the torture of suspects.

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