Media: British special services contributed to the torture of the suspects

British intelligence officers witnessed cruel treatment of terrorism suspects from the US intelligence services after September 11, The Guardian writes on Thursday. The newspaper refers to the published reports of the Committee of the House of Communities for Intelligence and Security.

There are no direct evidence of the involvement of special services employees in torture. However, as the authors of the report indicate, the Mi-6 foreign intelligence service and the Mi-5 counterintelligence assisted the American intelligence services in the search for suspects and sending them to the United States and in organizing interrogations.

The document mentions 13 cases when the employees of the UK special services were direct witnesses of cruelty to the detainees. In 25 cases, the British were informed by the detainees of the brutal handling of them.

Earlier, human rights activists have repeatedly stated a violation of the rights of prisoners contained in the specialist Guantanamo in Cuba and applying to them interrogation methods that can be qualified as torture. On the basis of Guantanamo, they began to contain suspects in terrorism after attacks on September 11, 2011. Until now, several dozen people remain there. The United States officially abandoned the "strict methods" of interrogations.