Britain and U.S. asked to release secret torture reports

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Britain and U.S. asked to release secret torture reports

Allies accused by human rights lawyer of covering up the truth on kidnapping and torture of terrorist suspects

A UN human rights advocate has called on Britain and the US to release confidential reports into the countries’ involvement in the kidnapping and torture of terrorism suspects, accusing them of “years of official denials, sophistry and prevarication” to cover up the truth.

In a speech to the UN human rights council in Geneva introducing a report on the issue, Ben Emmerson, a British barrister who is the UN’s special rapporteur on protecting human rights within efforts to combat terrorism, demanded that Britain publish the interim findings of a report by a retired judge, Sir Peter Gibson, into the involvement of MI5 and MI6 in the removal and mistreatment of terrorist suspects. MORE… http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2013/03/britain-and-us-asked-to-release-secret.html

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