Allegations that Britain Colluded in Torture of Terror Suspects Reach European Court

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Source: Guardian UK

Allegations that Britain colluded in torture of terror suspects reach European court

Ian Cobain
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 2 August 2009 18.49 BST

Allegations that the UK's intelligence agencies have colluded in the torture of British citizens during overseas counter-terrorism investigations have reached the European courts.

In what is expected to be first of a series of applications to the European court of human rights, lawyers representing Salahuddin Amin are arguing that he has been a victim of torture and was denied the right to a fair trial. The same legal team have also lodged proceedings on behalf of Amin at the high court in London, suing the director generals of MI5 and MI6, the Home Office, the Foreign Office and the attorney general.

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Amin says that he was beaten, whipped, deprived of sleep and threatened with an electric drill while being asked questions that would subsequently be put to him again during non-violent interviews by two MI5 officers. Before Amin went on trial, the judge ruled that his conditions in ISI custody had been "physically oppressive" but that he had exaggerated his mistreatment and that it fell short of torture.

Since then, Human Rights Watch (HRW), the New York-based NGO, has spoken to a number of Pakistani intelligence officers who they say corroborated the accounts of torture given by several British citizens alleging UK complicity.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/02/britian-torture-claims-european-court

[Hissyspit]

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[No Elephants]

2. K and 5th R. Now, that really gives me back some hope.

[Senator]

3. "the desire for information on the part of both British and American authorities was 'insatiable'"

insatiable:
incapable of being satisfied : quenchless

As in a vampire's thirst for blood.

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[DCKit]

4. What is it about fascists and their appetites? Gluttons for everything. n/t

[Solly Mack]

5. kick