FOUR British men who were released from Guantánamo Bay detention centre after three years in captivity have formally sued the US government after alleging they had been subjected to torture and other human rights violations. The groundbreaking legal claim was brought in Washington yesterday by Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed, who during their incarceration became known as the Tipton Three, and Jamal al-Harith, from Manchester, who have each demanded £5.5 million in the lawsuits from the United States. The men, who were captured in Afghanistan during the US "war on terror" in the aftermath of the attacks on...
