But the Strasbourg court unanimously dismissed his claim as inadmissible, describing it as "manifestly ill-founded".
"The program-makers made the decision not to include details of further abuse since the case had not proceeded and evidence had been regarded as inadmissible.
The newspaper stories did not take into account the large number of applications against the UK which are rejected by the court as inadmissible.
The court decided 1,997 cases that were lodged against the UK in 2014; of those, 1,970 (98.7%) were declared inadmissible or struck out.
"We would have to decide whether there was a manifest error on the part of the state authorities concerned, and in particular of the national courts concerned, before we could reject a case as inadmissible under the new criterion... Ultimately, in those cases we would be the ones who would be interpreting the provision and applying it".
If Slahi truly was dangerous, confessions beaten and threatened out of him were inadmissible in court, and a judge might throw the whole case out.
Bratza agreed with Cameron that the backlog of inadmissible cases was unacceptably high; that the court should not simply give claimants a fourth bite of the cherry; it should not act as an immigration tribunal; and it must not "substitute its own judgment for that of reasonable national processes".
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He also suggested that there was more to the internal sentencing report than the public had seen.In terms of Mr Gupta's immediate fate, an appeal will be filed on four grounds, three tied to testimony that Judge Rakoff blocked from being heard, and one stemming from wire-taps that Mr Gupta's legal team claim were inadmissible.
American prosecutors also made use of wiretap evidence, which is inadmissible in British courts.
It may take up to two years before the European Court comes to an opinion.And last week Italy's final appeals court ruled that another piece of legislation, introduced in October 2001 to render large parts of the prosecution's evidence in the judges-bribing cases inadmissible, had no such effect.
