“The UK’s official human rights watchdog has warned the government that its newly published guidance on torture may be unlawful and open to challenge in the courts.”
The Guardian, 27th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Coalition ministers are to be warned today that their current plans to overhaul counter-terrorism powers risk tacitly condoning torture and banning a wide range of political and religious groups.”
The Guardian, 19th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Government is proposing new rules about how courts in England and Wales deal with people accused of serious human rights violations.”
Ministry of Justice, 22nd July 2010
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The judge leading the inquiry into claims UK security services colluded in the torture of terror suspects abroad must be removed, a charity has said.”
BBC News, 20th July 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Claims that British soldiers used water torture on a badly beaten Iraqi man before unlawfully handing him over to US interrogators are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence. The troubling case includes the first evidence before a UK court of British soldiers being directly involved in a joint torture operation with US forces.”
The Independent, 16th July 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The true extent of the Labour government’s involvement in the illegal abduction and torture of its own citizens after the al-Qaida attacks of September 2001 has been spelled out in stark detail with the disclosure during high court proceedings of a mass of highly classified documents.”
The Guardian, 14th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government’s interrogation guidelines for intelligence officers are facing their first legal challenge, less than a week after they were published as part of David Cameron’s attempt to signal a break with the counter-terrorism practices of the Labour administration.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The coalition should wait for the results of the torture inquiry before proposing legislation that bows to transatlantic pressure.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The rules governing the interrogation of prisoners abroad have been published by the government for the first time.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th July 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Sir Peter Gibson’s task in chairing the inquiry, David Cameron told MPs, will be to establish whether the British government and its intelligence agencies were involved in improper treatment of detainees held by other countries, and if so, to what extent. Gibson, a former appeal court judge, is trusted by MI5 and MI6 as the commissioner for the intelligence services, who draws up a short annual report on the work of the agencies based on evidence given to him in private.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The scope of the torture inquiry outlined by David Cameron today (6 July) followed weeks of negotiations between Cameron and Nick Clegg; talks that were influenced by conversations not only with senior civil servants, but also with the security services, eminent judges and experts in international law.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“David Cameron today (6 July) ordered an unprecedented inquiry into evidence and allegations of British complicity in the torture and abuse of terror suspects.”
The Guardian, 6th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“David Cameron is tomorrow expected to announce the terms of a long-promised, judge-led inquiry into allegations of MI5’s complicity in the torture of terror suspects and into how British citizens and residents are to be compensated for being detained at Guantánamo Bay.”
The Guardian, 5th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Briton who says he was tortured in Pakistan with the complicity of UK security services has won the right to appeal against his terror convictions.”
BBC News, 30th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“David Cameron and the foreign secretary, William Hague, are understood to have agreed the terms of a judge-led inquiry into claims that British security services were complicit in torture of terrorism suspects.”
The Guardian, 29th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government is facing growing demands to publish guidance given to UK intelligence officers interrogating terrorist suspects overseas.”
BBC News, 29th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An anti-war activist today won ‘a partial victory’ in her High Court challenge over Britain’s policy of transferring captured Taliban suspects to the Afghan authorities.”
The Independent, 25th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Media organisations want appeal of Manchester man, who complained that MI5 was complicit in his torture in Pakistan, to be heard in open court.”
The Guardian, 24th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A device that uses high-frequency sound to disperse teenage gangs is illegal under human rights law and is ‘degrading and discriminatory’ to youngsters, a report this week claims.”
The Guardian, 20th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The coalition government’s decision to hold an inquiry into the UK’s involvement in torture and rendition was today hailed by the Council of Europe as ‘a proper response’ which could offer an example to other nations.”
The Guardian, 9th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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