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January 14, 2021

Call to halt UK police training programmes for repressive states

The College of Policing has provided training for at least 12 countries that are listed as 'human rights priority countries' by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
January 12, 2021

Biden must close Guantánamo, says new Amnesty report

Eleven years ago Vice-President Joe Biden said the Obama adminstration would close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.
December 10, 2020

UN expert calls for immediate release of Assange after 10 years of arbitrary detention

Mr Assange's prolonged solitary confinement is neither necessary nor proportionate and clearly lacks any legal basis, said Nils Melzer.
December 7, 2020

Minister accused of breaking ministerial code to push through Overseas Operations Bill

Critics say the bill disregards the human rights of both armed forces personnel and civilians.
November 11, 2020

Cross-party Committee calls for clear limits on MI5 crimes

We cannot pass a law that leaves open the possibility of state-sanctioned rape, murder or torture, says the Committee Chair.
November 2, 2020

Case proceeds against Saudi child defendant facing death penalty

Mohammed al Faraj was 15 years old when he was arrested outside a bowling alley in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
October 31, 2020

Call for suspension and review of UK military and police training in Nigeria

The UK has provided training and communications equipment to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit which has been linked to extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention and other abuses.
October 30, 2020

Overseas Operations Bill 'unjustifiable, ineffective and will prevent justice from being done'

The Joint Committee on Human Rights is troubled by the Bill itself and the Government's use of inflammatory language to describe lawyers representing those who have been harmed by unlawful mistreatment at the hands of the UK Armed Forces.
October 20, 2020

UK refuses to assist Police Scotland investigation into torture and rendition

Police Scotland are investigating the use of Scottish airports to facilitate torture and rendition in 2013, and the Lord Advocate in 2014 ordered them to examine potentially vital evidence held in the US Senate report.
October 17, 2020

Commons passes agent crime bill without limits

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, which grants every police force in Britain, MI5 and a broad range of other governmental bodies the power to authorise undercover agents to commit crimes, has passed its third reading in the Commons