In a ruling published on Wednesday, Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones said the attorney general would be investigating the issues of "torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" against Mr Mohamed.
The judges said they wanted the full details of the alleged torture to be published in the interests of safeguarding the rule of law, free speech and democratic accountability.


The details, believed to amount to just seven paragraphs, relate to the circumstances of Mr Mohamed's detention and his treatment while he was being held.


But they said they had been persuaded it was not in the public interest to do this due to the potential impact on UK national security of US stopping intelligence sharing.


By doing so, the US government could "inflict on the citizens of the UK a very considerable increase in the dangers they face at a time when a serious terrorist threat still pertains", they said.
Tory MP David Davis, who first raised the matter in the House of Commons, said the UK had been threatened with having security co-operation withdrawn if the information was published.

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The Conservatives said the ruling raised "serious questions" and urged ministers to make a statement on the issue on Thursday.


"No British government should participate in or condone torture under any circumstances," said shadow foreign secretary William Hague.


"We hope that the new US administration will look again at this decision, particularly since the judge concerned that there were no security reasons for the material not to be made public."


Mr Davis said UK ministers should be asking whether it was "appropriate" for one democracy to threaten another with such a serious sanction as was being alleged.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7870896.stm

Seems to me that if the tory party wins in Britain, the USA's "special relationship" may be screwed: after all, the tory party was only ever interested in the USA's money and look what's going on in that area! Besides, the tories' ideals are well espoused by the growth of Imperialist China, USA's biggest enemy.

The shock for british people will sink in only later when they realise that the legal framework allowing british people to be tortured does NOT care if they are "brown" people or not! It's not just me and my homeys who can now be kidnapped and tortured by various governments without any legal comeback, whether or not the people are 100% innocent of any crime!

Whatever colour you are - if you are in UK and USA... your children are 100% subject to these rules, and over the next 30+ years, due to the social unrest from the market crash, a LOT of non-dark people will be detained and abused using these "terrorism" regulations.

If you don't care about your children's future, then I do understand why no one has anything to say on this topic. Me I care about my future kids, and indeed yours.

From what I read, The title is misleading. It was a caution that brining such information could fracture the relationship between UK and USA in terms of sharing information.

Same old from Bush, but from Obama?