NGOs push for judicial inquiry into UK’s links to post-9/11 rendition & torture
‘A potent alliance of leading human rights NGOs has called for a full judicial inquiry into Britain’s role in rendition a week ahead of the publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq war.
Liberty, Amnesty International, Freedom from Torture, and Reprieve are all signatories to a letter calling for a full investigation of British collusion in the practice of rendition – shorthand for kidnap and torture – of terror suspects.
They blasted the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) earlier in June not to pursue charges in the case of the families of two Libyan dissidents who were kidnapped and tortured, allegedly with British complicity.’
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