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A human rights charity accused British troops in Afghanistan yesterday of imprisoning and torturing a man.
Reprieve and Leigh Day solicitors are taking legal action in a bid to force the government to investigate claims that Yunus Rahmatullah was waterboarded, dragged around behind a British military vehicle and beaten until he was unconscious.
Mr Rahmatullah was released earlier this year after spending 10 years in secret detention at Bagram airbase and Abu Ghraib prison.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
