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Britain accused of human rights abuses

Uzbekistan News.Net
Tuesday 24th November, 2009

Human Rights Watch has accused Britain of being complicit in the torture of terrorism detainees in Pakistan.
Human Rights Watch has accused Britain of being complicit in the torture of terrorism detainees in Pakistan.

The group has alleged Britain had put Pakistan under pressure to extract information from terrorism suspects and made no effort to find out how the detainees were treated.

It said that while British officials had known that Pakistani intelligence agencies routinely used torture, they did not intervene in the interrogations.

Britain has said it rejects the human rights group's assertions and the need to hold any inquiry.

The British Foreign Office has said in a statement that the allegations are not new and some had already been been dealt with in British courts.

It dismissed the suggestion that British security and intelligence services operated without oversight, saying it is not British policy to collude in, solicit, or even directly participate in abuses of prisoners.

Earlier this year, two parliamentary reports raised concerns that the government had been involved in the torture and ill-treatment of terrorism suspects held in foreign jails.
 

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11-25-09, 09:59 AM

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