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States could require government contractors to certify they are not participating in boycotts of Israel, which scholars say violates the First Amendment.

A year after the US Senate published a major report into the CIA torture programme, there is no sign of either the UK’s own inquiry or a decision from the Crown Prosecution Service regarding the role the British Government played, says the legal and human rights organisation Reprieve.

Amnesty International has strongly criticised the Obama administration’s silence in the wake of last year’s Senate torture report.

Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has admitted that it was only able to consider “limited” evidence on redactions from the Senate torture report.