US idea of torture 'not same as in UK', judge says

The US’s idea of what constitutes torture “is not the same as ours and doesn’t appear to coincide with that of most civilised countries”, a High Court judge in London said today.

Mr Justice Collins’s comment came during a hearing in which he was being asked to order UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to request the return to the UK of British residents held by the Americans at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.