UN accuses Britain of condoning torture

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Britain has been condemned in a highly critical United Nations report for breaching basic human rights and "trying to conceal illegal acts" in the fight against terrorism.

The report is sharply critical of British co-operation in the transfer of detainees to places where they are likely to be tortured as part of the US rendition programme.

The report accuses British intelligence officers of interviewing detainees held incommunicado in Pakistan in "so-called safe houses where they were being tortured".

It adds that Britain, with a number of countries, has sent interrogators to Guantánamo Bay in a further example of what it says "can be reasonably understood as implicitly condoning" torture and ill-treatment, adding that the US was able to create its system for moving terror suspects around foreign jails only with the support of its allies.

Some individuals faced "prolonged and secret detention" and practices that breached bans on torture and other forms of ill-treatment, the report says.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/09/torture-guantanamo-rendition

[indepat]

1. Reports such as this tickle me shit-less

:P

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

Here's the direct link to the report

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/03/09/ahrc.pdf