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| Terrorist loses torture legal case |
| 2013-06-26 |
| The High Court has thrown out a damages case brought by a terrorist who claimed MI5 was complicit in his alleged torture at the hands of the Pakistan intelligence service. In 2007, Salahuddin Amin, from Luton, Bedfordshire, was one of five men jailed for life at the Old Bailey for conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life. The group plotted to bomb public places such as the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London and the giant Bluewater shopping centre in Kent using chemical fertiliser bombs. In March 2004, Amin, 38, was living in Pakistan and, following advice from his uncle, surrendered himself voluntarily to the Pakistani authorities - the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). When he was arrested on his arrival in the UK from Pakistan in February 2005, he claimed he had suffered ill treatment there and admitted things that he had not in fact done. He said he was told by the Pakistan authorities that he was originally arrested following orders from the UK. There was never any claim that he was directly mistreated in any way by any British officer. |
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