Guantanamo detainee seeks secret papers

LONDON, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A British court ruled a British resident arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a terror suspect may get to see evidence of torture.

Binyam Mohamed, a 30-year-old Ethiopian native, took his case over secret Foreign Office documents that might help prove he was tortured to the U.K. High Court in London.

The court ruled Thursday that the British government, which had refused to grant him access to the documents, must reconsider its refusal within a week, Human Rights Watch said.

The Times of London said Mohamed admitted to plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb in the United States. He said he was tortured while being held in Morocco and Afghanistan.

The former engineering student went to Britain as a teen and was allowed to remain in Britain in 2000, the newspaper said.

"It is outrageous that Binyam Mohamed, who is being held and charged by the United States, has to go to a British court to get potentially exculpatory information about his treatment," Jennifer Daskal, Human Rights Watch senior counter-terrorism counsel, said in a release.

Mohamed is accused of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism but hasn't been formally charged by the military commissions at Guantanamo, where he has been since 2004.