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  • September 18, 2020
    MP demands access to secret hearings on torture

    The Government’s push for secrecy follows the emergence of evidence revealing that there may be at least 15 further cases where the UK was complicit in torture and rendition.

  • September 16, 2019
    New torture revelations 'highlight need for UK inquiry'

    Metropolitan police detectives are currently investigating whether MI5 and MI6 officers committed serious criminal offences.

  • September 7, 2018
    Government faces legal challenge over torture authorisations

    The Government is facing a legal challenge from the human right organisation Reprieve over its use of a secretive law that can be deployed to authorise the involvement of British intelligence officers in torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

  • August 22, 2018
    Public consultation launched into UK policy on torture

    A public consultation has been launched into changes to the UK’s torture policy or 'Consolidated Guidance', which tells UK personnel how far they can go in participating in the interrogation suspects held by a foreign country or receiving intelligence which could have been obtained through torture.

  • July 3, 2018
    Government considering judge-led inquiry into torture and rendition

    The Government has announced that it is considering a judge-led inquiry into UK involvement in torture and rendition following the publication of two reports into the subject by the Intelligence and Security Committee last week.

  • January 13, 2016
    Intelligence Committee denied access to drone strike information

    Members of the UK’s Parliamentary intelligence watchdog will not be allowed access to all intelligence or defence information relating to the new British practice of targeted killing by drone, the Prime Minister has said.