Posted in Charon on Wednesday, November 25, 2009|
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Is this how low we have fallen? Is this why David Miliband, Foreign Secretary, is so keen to keep secret the information which our judges wish to make public as part of the due process of law? Is this what is being done in our name? Is this how we preserve our so called freedom?
The Guardian reports:
‘Cruel, illegal, immoral’: Human Rights Watch condemns UK’s role in torture
The attorney general was under intense pressure tonight to order a wider series of police investigations into British complicity in torture after one of the world’s leading human rights organisations said there was clear evidence of the UK government’s involvement in the torture of its own citizens.
After an investigation spanning more than a year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) today condemned Britain’s role in the torture of terror suspects detained in Pakistan as cruel, counter-productive and in clear breach of international law.
Critically, a report published today by HRW – entitled Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects – draws upon corroborative evidence received from the Pakistani torturers themselves.
Read the full report in the Guardian
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