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Intelligence agencies spying on lawyers in sensitive security casesInternal MI5, MI6 and GCHQ documents reveal routine interception of legally privileged communications -
Abdel Hakim Belhaj wins right to sue UK government over his kidnapCourt rules case of Libyan exile, who was flown to Tripoli and tortured, can go ahead despite government attempts to stop it
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Government wants impunity from UK courts over torture, judges toldLawyer acting for Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who was tortured in Libya after MI6-aided abduction, says case has profound implications -
How Belhaj challenge to UK courts put spotlight on closed hearingsJoshua Rozenberg: Suspicion of GCHQ access to lawyers' emails to anti-Gaddafi rebel Abdel Hakim Belhaj lays bare principle of open justice
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Libyan told he cannot pursue rendition claim in case it harms UK interestsHigh court judge says Abdel Hakim Belhaj has well-founded claim, but case would damage British-US relations
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Judges in Abdel Hakim Belhaj case right to call the government’s bluff