Guantanamo Briton 'witnessed deaths of detainees'

A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay today claimed he had been subjected to “vindictive torture” and death threats by the United States authorities.

Moazzam Begg, from Birmingham, claimed in a hand-written letter newly declassified by the US, that he had witnessed the deaths of two fellow detainees “at the hands of US military personnel”.