UN criticises UK 'rendition role'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Britain has been accused of taking part in US "renditions" of terror suspects in a United Nations report.

UN Special Rapporteur Martin Scheinin said he was "deeply troubled" at the US system of rendition, secret detention and practices violating torture bans.

But he said it was only possible with the collaboration of allies including the UK, Pakistan, Indonesia and Kenya.

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In the report, Mr Scheinin says the US system of rendition - in which suspects were seized, then transferred to covert CIA detention centres known as "black sites" in countries like Afghanistan and Morocco - required "an international web of exchange of information".

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7933929.stm

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. The UN should really look into what is going on with these 'prisoners'

perhaps they are people who have been patsies in the past and it is a way of keeping them 'locked up'

[Louis-Emmanuel]

2. UN condemns Britain for aiding US 'torture' flights

Source: Scotsman

March 10, 2009

Britain is condemned today in a highly critical UN report for breaching basic human rights and "trying to conceal illegal acts" in the fight against terrorism.

The report is sharply critical of British co-operation in the transfer of detainees to places where they are likely to be tortured as part of the US rendition programme. It accuses British intelligence officers of interviewing detainees held incommunicado in Pakistan in "so-called safe houses where they were being tortured".

It adds that Britain, and a number of other countries, sent interrogators to Guantánamo Bay in a further example of what "can be reasonably understood as implicitly condoning" torture and ill-treatment. It said the US was able to create its system for moving terror suspects around foreign jails only with the support of its allies.

Some individuals faced "prolonged and secret detention" and practices that breached bans on torture and other forms of ill-treatment, the report says.

Read more: http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/UN-condemns-Britain-for-.5054079.jp

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The report can be seen here: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2009/03/09/ahrc.pdf