Ex-Libyan rebel commander appeals ruling on British torture case

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* Ex-Islamist commander says tortured for years after rendition * He says CIA and UK spies colluded to send him back to Gaddafi * UK court rejected case because of "act of state" principle (Updates with start of appeal) By Michael Holden LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - A former Libyan Islamist commander who says he suffered years of torture by Muammar Gaddafi's henchmen after British and U.S. spies handed him over to Libya appealed on Monday against a ruling blocking legal action against the British government. Abdel Hakim Belhadj, a rebel leader who helped topple Gaddafi in 2011 and is **w leader of the Libyan al-Watan Party, says he and his pregnant wife Fatima were abducted by U.S. CIA agents in Thailand in 2004 and then illegally transferred to Tripoli with the help of British spies.

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