Officials 'knew of beatings at Guantanamo': "The UK government knew about beatings and abuses at Guantanamo Bay because Britons held there complained to UK interrogators and consular officials on numerous occasions, a lawyer for remaining detainees alleged yesterday.
Louise Christian, who represents several men held at the US military base in Cuba, said that two of the Britons released in March - Tarek Dergoul and Jamal Udeen - told her they had repeatedly protested about their treatment. Mr Dergoul alone made five separate complaints.
... The US military has insisted that the kind of abuses against prisoners documented at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq did not take place at Guantanamo Bay.
But Mr Rasul and Mr Iqbal wrote: 'We were deliberately humiliated and degraded by the use of methods that we now read US officials denying.'"
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