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Kuwait has denied claims that the leader of a cell allegedly linked to the Al-Qaeda network died after being tortured in prison, a newspaper reported Thursday. Amer Khlaif al-Enezi died Tuesday night of "heart failure" after he was taken to hospital from his detention cell at the emirate's secret service police, the interior ministry said Wednesday. The death "has not resulted from torture as has been alleged by some ... The forensic report will prove this," Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah said in comments published by Al-Rai Al-Aam daily. "Those who propagate that suspect Amer Khlaif died under torture have no evidence and the forensic report will prove he died of low blood pressure," Sheikh Nawaf said.The London-based Islamic Observatory, which monitors the treatment of Islamist prisoners in the Middle East, charged that Enezi had died "under torture" and demanded an independent commission of inquiry. "Enezi was killed because he refused to give information" on wanted Islamists, it said in a statement received by AFP in Dubai.