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UK spies told to reveal instructions which 'turned blind eye to torture'
MI5 and MI6 have been ordered by a British High Court judge to release secret guidelines which human rights groups claim instructed spies to turn a blind eye to the torture of British terror suspects abroad.
The guidelines will be released to six British former Guantanamo Bay detainees who are suing the Government for allegedly being complicit in their torture by the Americans.
The guidelines were issued to agents in 2002 and 2004.
'We believe they will reveal a policy of complicity to torture, which explains all these cases over the years of MI5 agents knowing a Briton is being tortured but doing nothing about it,' said Katherine O'Shea of Reprieve, a charity which has given legal help to former Guantanamo Bay detainees.