UK ministers must answer allegations that Britain was complicit in torture

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Ministers face torture pressure

Davis: UK government should make it 'plain' it does not condone torture

UK ministers must answer allegations that Britain was complicit in torture, a senior Conservative MP has said.

David Davis said a High Court ruling on Wednesday alleged that Binyam Mohamed, a UK resident held in the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba, had been tortured.

The judges also said the US threatened to withdraw intelligence help from the UK if details were released.

But Foreign Secretary David Miliband said there had been no such threat and the UK "never condoned torture".

"There has been no threat from the US to break off intelligence co-operation," he said.