UK Guantanamo ruling upheld

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Britain's Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the government must disclose secret intelligence about the treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who says he was tortured in US custody.

Judges rejected the government's claim that revealing the information would damage US-British intelligence cooperation.

In October, the High Court ordered officials to make public a secret seven-paragraph summary of US intelligence files describing the treatment of British resident Binyam Mohamed. The Foreign Office appealed that ruling.

Ethiopia-born Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and says he was tortured there and in Morocco before being flown to Guantanamo Bay. He was released without charge last year.

- Reuters