UK Members of Parliament have voted to extend yet further the maximum period of pre-charge detention for terror suspects.
Amnesty International has welcomed the public inquiry into the case of
an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died after being tortured over a period
of 36 hours while detained by UK troops in Basra.
Parliamentarians present US government officials with an Amnesty International declaration endorsed by over 1,200 of their counterparts worldwide.
The UK government's policy of "deportation with assurances" was called
into question on Wednesday by decisions of the Court of Appeal of
England and Wales in two key cases.
All UN member states are facing a rigorous examination of their human rights records.
Following the injunction granted on 28 February 2008 by the High Court
of England and Wales to prevent Ben Griffin, a former member of the UK
Special Forces (UKSF) Special Air Services (SAS), from making any
further disclosures relating to the work of the SAS, Amnesty
International's Senior Adviser, Anne FitzGerald, said: “Rather than seeking to silence people who might have credible evidence
of alleged human rights violations, which may include war crimes, the
UK authorities should be seeking to investigate those allegations.”
The European Court of Human Rights has re-affirmed the absolute
prohibition of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment.
Amnesty International has called for a full, independent investigation into any further UK involvement in renditions.
Further inquiries into allegations of rendition flights announced by the UK government should not be a substitute for a full, independent investigation into any other UK involvement in renditions, Amnesty international said following the admission by the US and UK governments that two rendition flights had landed in Diego Garcia in 2002
A flight instructor wrongly accused of training the hijackers of planes used in the 11 September 2001 attacks in the USA has won his appeal.
