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Diego Garcia

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.
December 11, 2018

Chagos Islanders continue legal battle for their homeland in UK High Court

The UK government was responsible for the forced eviction of all inhabitants of the Chagos Islands.
April 10, 2015

UK stalls publication of CIA rendition flights records

The UK Government is continuing to delay the publication of flight records which could hold evidence of the use of British territory by CIA ‘torture flights'.
September 12, 2014

UK Government changes story again on destruction of renditions evidence

A government minister has admitted that records on flights through Diego Garcia – used by CIA rendition jets – are “damaged to the point of no longer being useful.”
August 11, 2014

Further evidence on rendition 'should certainly come out', says David Miliband

David Miliband, who as UK Foreign Secretary was forced to admit that the CIA had used British territory for ‘rendition’ flights, has left open the possibility that further evidence of involvement could emerge.
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.
July 14, 2014

Emails show UK Government is keeping renditions evidence from Parliament

UK Foreign Office documents concerning the use of British territory by CIA 'rendition' flights show that ministers have been keeping key evidence in their posession from MPs, it has emerged.
July 10, 2014

UK government says renditions evidence 'incomplete due to water damage'

Documents that could implicate British officials in the CIA's global rendition programme have been irretrievably damaged, the Foreign Office has claimed.
June 21, 2014

UK government urged to prevent US use of Diego Garcia for renditions

Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee has called on the UK Government to restrict the use by the US of Diego Garcia, a British overseas territory, for renditions.