UK Policy on Torture
Submitted by antarchi on August 12, 2007 - 16:45.
The British government has:
- proclaimed for itself the right to use torture evidence in legal proceedings;
- devised agreements to make it possible to send people back to the risk of torture;
- attempted to overturn European human rights law banning such returns;
- refused to condemn (and thus condoned) the U.S. policy of “extraordinary rendition”—state kidnap, delivering people to be tortured in third countries;
- shared information with other governments that led to the apprehension of UK residents who were then subjected to “extraordinary rendition” by the U.S.;
- whitewashed (and thus condoned) U.S. policies on torture.