Moazzam Begg: 'British Intelligence Were There at Every Stage of My Detention'

When I heard about Binyam Mohamed I felt a certain sense of relief that finally some of the truth was coming out into the public arena. But it's not a revelation to me as it's something I have ­maintained since my release: that the British intelligence services were present at every stage of my ­incarceration and knew what was happening to me and to many other British prisoners.

I am a British citizen and the British intelligence services were, as far as I'm concerned, complicit in the torture of their own citizens – the ones they're supposed to protect.'

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