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MI6

December 17, 2020

MI6 may have unilaterally assumed power to break law on UK soil

The Government is seeking to put these practices into legislation with the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.
October 14, 2020

UN experts condemn failure to repatriate families from Syrian camps

Richard Barrett, a former director of global counter-terrorism at MI6 has advocated strongly for bringing British families back to the UK.
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.
July 10, 2019

New report 'details UK involvement in rendition to torture'

A new report presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the Central Intelligence Agency's black sites network, using new data derived from an unprecedented analysis of the Senate Intelligence Committee's 2014 study of CIA detention.
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.
April 13, 2018

Government ordered to hand over police file on Libya torture

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.
March 22, 2018

Supreme Court to hear Libya torture secrecy challenge

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.
March 1, 2018

Supreme Court to hear Libya torture secrecy challenge

The Supreme Court will hear a landmark challenge to attempts by the Government to conceal the role of a top MI6 officer in renditions to Libya.
July 22, 2017

MI6 rendition trial to be heard in secret

The High Court decided yesterday that the trial involving the rendition and torture of a leading Gaddafi opponent and his pregnant wife should be conducted in secret.
July 6, 2017

Government seeks secret trial in MI6 ‘rendition’ case

The Government will apply for a secret hearing in a challenge to a prosecution decision for the first time in a case stemming from the involvement of a senior MI6 officer in the abduction and ‘rendition’ of two families to Gaddafi’s Libya, it has emerged.