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Gareth Peirce, one of Britain’s best-known human rights attorneys. She is author of Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice.

Peter Bouckaert, Emergencies Director at Human Rights Watch.

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/7/discovered_files_show_us_britain_had


Discovered Files Show U.S., Britain Had Extensive Ties with Gaddafi Regime on Rendition, Torture


Human Rights Watch has uncovered hundreds of letters in the Libyan foreign ministry proving the Gaddafi government directly aided the extraordinary rendition program carried out by the CIA and the MI6 in Britain after the 9/11 attacks. The documents expose how the CIA rendered suspects to Libyan authorities knowing they would be tortured. One of the most prominent suspects rendered to Libya was an Islamic militant named Abdelhakim Belhaj, who is now the military commander for the Libyan rebels.

At the time of his capture in 2004, Belhaj was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a group that had ties to al-Qaeda. We speak to Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, who helped find the documents in Tripoli, and Gareth Peirce, a well-known British human rights attorney who has represented numerous Guantánamo prisoners as well as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. for those hearing impaired.

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