Save torture proof, U.S. court orders

A federal court ordered the U.S. government to preserve any evidence of torture while it weighed a defense motion in the case of a Guantanamo prisoner who alleges he was abused in overseas CIA prisons.

Attorneys for Majid Khan, the only U.S. resident among 15 so-called high-value detainees, had argued that evidence of harsh interrogation techniques was critical to their client establishing he had no ties to Al Qaeda.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said it ordered the preservation of evidence so that it could have “sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of the motion” by the defense seeking a ruling on preserving evidence in Khan’s case.