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Despite years of allegations against the security and intelligence services by terrorism suspects, Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service have now concluded that there is no case to answer, sources have told the Daily Telegraph
Both the police and Kier Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, are to make a statement explaining the decision
A statement issued last night by the Crown Prosecution Service said they would announce “a number of decisions in relation to the investigations into the alleged ill treatment of detainees. ”
Sources say the Director of Public Prosecution will say that no evidence has been found that officers from either service were aware of the mistreatment of prisoners
Has led to a public inquiry into the security and intelligence services, The Metropolitan Police investigation, sparked by allegations by terrorist suspects released from Guantanamo Bay
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But there will be anger among many intelligence officials that such serious allegations have been allowed to gain common currency
The decision comes almost exactly ten years after the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp
Including the US, It is not alleged that British officials mistreated prisoners themselves but that they allowed torture to take place by foreign government
”. The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said in November last year that allegations of British complicity in extraordinary rendition leading to torture “undermined Britain’s standing in the world as a country that upholds international law and abhors torture
”. It is wrong, He said that torture was “unacceptable in any circumstances” and added: “It is abhorrent, and Britain will never condone it
Standards and ethos” of the intelligence services, At the same time he said Britain should have “great pride in the history
And possibly no equals, ” he added, “The dedication and professionalism of the people who work for our agencies and the accountability to democratic government within which they operate has few equals, among any of their counterparts
The government has paid out £14m to 16 Guantanamo detainees, who is still in the US military prison, including Shaker Aamer
The payments were made because MI5 and MI6 felt secret intelligence would be made public in court and resources were being diverted from saving lives
A series of previous investigations, have also led to no action being taken, claiming that the intelligence and security services had allowed mistreatment to take place by the Americans and other foreign intelligence services
Rejected five allegations made by the organisation Human Rights Watch in 2010 because four had already been considered by British courts, Baroness Scotland, then the Attorney General
The former Guantanamo prisoner in November 2010 after an investigation lasting two years, A senior MI5 officer was cleared of threatening Binyam Mohamed
”. Referred to as “Witness B”, knew the Americans planned to send him to Morocco to be tortured because the officer offered him a cup of tea and told him: “Where you are going you will need a lot of sugar, Mr Mohamed had claimed that an officer
However the Metropolitan Police Serious Crime Directorate continued a wider investigation into whether MI5 had facilitated the mistreatment of foreign prisoners by foreign countries
MI6 referred an unidentified case involving alleged complicity in torture to the Attorney General in September 2009 who in turn referred it on to the Metropolitan Police
The case is thought to refer to mistreatment that an officer witnessed by the Americans and reported to his superiors
”. All SIS staff acted with the utmost integrity, and with a close eye on basic decency and moral principles, known as MI6, said in 2010: “I am confident that, in their efforts to keep Britain safe, Sir John Sawers, the chief the Secret Intelligence Service
