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SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) - A U.S. court ordered the government on Friday to release a Sri Lankan who has been imprisoned for five years after he tried to enter America seeking asylum from alleged torture in his home country.

Ahilan Nadarajah, a 25-year old member of the Tamil ethnic minority on the island nation, was alleged to have been tortured by government troops at his home in the Jaffna peninsula of northern Sri Lanka on suspicion that he was a member of the separatist Tamil Tigers group, according to court papers.

He attempted to enter the United States illegally in 2001, and has been detained ever since without being charged with any crime.

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