The 29-year-old, of west London, has been charged with war crimes in the US. His lawyers say the UK has proof his testimony was given after torture and have launched a court battle to make the UK government release evidence for his defence. A two-day hearing at the High Court will consider Binyam Mohamed’s bid for a judicial review of the matter.

He is to face a military tribunal and could face the death penalty if convicted of conspiring to commit terrorism. He denies involvement in terrorism.The US charge sheet alleges Mr Mohamed travelled to Afghanistan in May 2001 and trained at an al-Qaeda camp.

It says he then accepted instructions from al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to conduct terror operations in the US.

Mr Mohamed’s legal team is led in the UK by human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith who said: "The issue here is whether the British government has an obligation to help us, as Mr Mohamed’s lawyers, prove that torture evidence has been extracted from him and that is effectively the only evidence that the US military is trying to use to convict him."
Foreign Secretary David Miliband formally wrote to his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice in August 2007, asking for Mr Mohamed’s release.

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