Uproar over reports of U.K. renditions

LONDON, July 15 (UPI) -- British lawmakers are calling for an investigation into charges intelligence agents turned U.K. citizens over to Pakistan for torture.

While the Home Office denied the reports, Labor and Conservative members of Parliament say the allegations must be looked into, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.

Labor MP John McDonnell says one of his constituents in Hayes, a medical student, was arrested three years ago by MI5 and shipped off to Karachi, Pakistan, where he was allegedly beaten and threatened with execution.

"I believe there is now sufficient evidence from this and other cases to demonstrate that British officials outsourced the torture of British nationals to a Pakistani intelligence agency," McDonnell said in The Telegraph article.

The Telegraph said the individual, who was released after about two months in captivity, had been picked up as part of the investigation into the 2005 London suicide bombings. At least two other British citizens have made similar allegations.