Daily Telegraph: British police will investigate if the secret services were involved in handing over two men to Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
The news came as prosecutors announced they would not bring criminal charges against British agents accused of complicity in the torture of other terror suspects, including former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed.
Claims of British involvement in the ill-treatment of Libyans, including Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, now the military commander of Tripoli, are due to be investigated by a wide-ranging government-ordered inquiry into torture.
But London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said yesterday it believed two cases, identified by legal charity Reprieve as those of Mr Belhaj and Gaddafi opponent Sami al Saadi, warranted criminal investigation.
“The allegations raised in the two specific cases concerning the alleged rendition of named individuals to Libya and the alleged ill-treatment of them in Libya are so serious that it is in the public interest for them to be investigated now rather than at the conclusion of the detainee inquiry,” said the MPS and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in a joint statement.
