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February 20, 2017

High Court to review CPS decision in Libyan renditions case

The High Court is to hear a challenge to the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision not to prosecute an ex-MI6 director over a family’s rendition to Colonel Gaddafi’s torture chambers in 2004.
June 29, 2016

Parliament to debate decision over UK role in CIA renditions

MPs will today ( 29 June 2016) debate the UK’s role in the CIA’s rendition and torture programme, for the first time since British prosecutors announced that no charges would be brought over the kidnap and forcible transfer of two families to Gaddafi’s Libya in 2004.
December 16, 2015

Reprieve challenges Jack Straw's comments on Libyan rendition

Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has reportedly claimed that “the British government never condoned, nor was complicit, in the torture or ill-treatment of detainees, wherever they were held.”
December 14, 2015

No answers from Tony Blair on Libya renditions and torture

Tony Blair has failed to provide information to MPs about his role in the UK-orchestrated rendition of two anti-Gaddafi dissidents and their families to the Libyan dictator.
December 9, 2015

Still no accountability for UK’s role in CIA torture programme

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.
April 30, 2015

Investigatory Powers Tribunal orders GCHQ to destroy stolen documents

The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ordered intelligence agency GCHQ to destroy illegally collected communications of a Libyan rendition victim.
November 5, 2014

Secretive court to consider Government spying on legal communications

A normally secretive court is to consider whether the Government should be made to release more information regarding its surveillance of legally privileged communications.
July 21, 2014

Libyan renditions case in court as UK ‘lobbies for secrecy’ in key torture report

The case brought by a husband and wife subjected to a 2004 ‘rendition,’ jointly organised by MI6, the CIA and Libyan intelligence, is being heard today by the Court of Appeal in London.
July 21, 2014

Questions for UK Government over claims on destroyed renditions evidence

Government claims that possible evidence of UK involvement in renditions held in Diego Garcia was damaged by “extremely heavy weather” last month have been questioned by legal charity Reprieve.
February 4, 2014

Libyan torture victims win permission to appeal against UK Government

An anti-Gaddafi dissident and his wife have won permission to take their case against the UK Government to the Court of Appeal.