The human rights organisation Reprieve has calling for a full, judge-led public inquiry into the rendition and ill-treatment of Abdul Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar, following the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri by allowing them to be detained at CIA ‘black sites’ on European soil.
The British Government has apologised to Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar for the UK’s role in their 2004 abduction, torture, and rendition to Libya.
The High Court has ordered the Government to hand over a top secret Metropolitan Police file that recommended charges against a senior MI6 officer for his role in the illegal rendition and torture of opponents of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi.
The Supreme Court will today hear a landmark challenge to attempts by the Government to conceal the role of a top MI6 officer in illegal renditions to Libya.
The Government will argue in court tomorrow that controversial ‘secret court’ measures, introduced in 2013, should for the first time be used in relation to a criminal case.
Five leading human rights groups have urged the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, to take action to negotiate the return of a British father on death row in Ethiopia, after more than three years of a failed strategy.