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MI5 denies withholding

documents in Binyam Mohammed case Binyam Mohamed has been involved in a lengthy legal battle The head of MI5 has denied his staff withheld documents relating to the torture of a UK resident from a House of Commons scrutiny committee. It has been suggested that a senior judge believed MI5 "deliberately misled" the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. But MI5 director-general Jonathan Evans told the Daily Telegraph the claim was "the precise opposite of the truth". The material concerns former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed. Ethiopian-born Mr Mohamed, 31, alleges that UK authorities knew he was tortured at the behest of US authorities after his detention in Pakistan in 2002. On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal ruled that the government must publish a seven-paragraph summary of exactly what British intelligence officials were told about his treatment. The summary revealed that his treatment was "cruel, inhuman and degrading" and included deliberate sleep deprivation.