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Torture claim man reveals rape threats
25 Jun 2009A British man suing the Home Office over claims MI5 colluded in his alleged torture said security officers accused him of masterminding the July 7 London bombings, it was reported today.
Jamil Rahman said he was arrested in Bangladesh in December 2005 by the country's DGFI intelligence agency under the direction of MI5 officers and questioned several times over two years.
He said: "They stripped me naked and said that if I didn't say what they wanted me to say, they would rape me and my wife and burn her and other family members.
"They told me to say I was al Qaeda and the organiser of the 7/7 bombings."
He said: "It was all to do with the British. Even the Bengali intelligence officer told me that they didn't know anything about me, that they were only doing this for the British."
He added that he was pressured to give evidence against a Briton facing trial in Bangladesh.
A Home Office spokesman told the BBC: "We firmly reject any suggestion that we torture people or ask others to do so on our behalf. Mr Rahman has made a lot of unsubstantiated allegations. They have not been evidenced in any court of law."
It was revealed last month that lawyers for Mr Rahman wrote to Jacqui Smith claiming she colluded in assault, unlawful arrest, false imprisonment and breaches of human rights legislation.
Mr Rahman, who settled in Bangladesh in 2005, married a woman he met while travelling in the country and returned to the UK last year.
His claims follow accusations by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed, who said he was tortured in Pakistan and Morocco with the knowledge of MI5.
Reader views (9)
Carl - you narrow-minded fool. I don't want to go into this debate.
- Samantha, London, 30/06/2009 10:51
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Trial by accusation - I dunno...
It seems to work most of the time in the UK. No need for actual evidence, is there. Or so it would seem.
- Rogan, Irving, 25/06/2009 17:47
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don't you know,terrorists always tell the truth especially when the financial motive is eye watering.
- Frank, Dorchester Dorset, 25/06/2009 16:47
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If he was treated so badly by British Intelligence then why on earth would he come here again? Oh yes, benefits and the chance of some compensation.
- Carl, London, 25/06/2009 16:35
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These wannabe terrorists will try every trick in the book just to screw Britain out of money and escape justice.
- Nowan King, London, 25/06/2009 16:00
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Fibber.
Another one chasing his half a million jackpot.
- Russell, London, 25/06/2009 12:27
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I have very little faith in this Government either, but do we think that terrorists always tell the truth?
- Mark, London, 25/06/2009 10:35
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How that Smith woman is still in that office I really do not understand.
- Steveo, Islington, London, 25/06/2009 10:15
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what chance of the truth coming out,just look at the goverment cover ups and lies.it stinks??
- Basil, bussiere poitevine 87320 france, 25/06/2009 09:18
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