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November 11, 2020

Cross-party Committee calls for clear limits on MI5 crimes

We cannot pass a law that leaves open the possibility of state-sanctioned rape, murder or torture, says the Committee Chair.
November 2, 2020

Case proceeds against Saudi child defendant facing death penalty

Mohammed al Faraj was 15 years old when he was arrested outside a bowling alley in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
October 31, 2020

Call for suspension and review of UK military and police training in Nigeria

The UK has provided training and communications equipment to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit which has been linked to extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention and other abuses.
October 30, 2020

Overseas Operations Bill 'unjustifiable, ineffective and will prevent justice from being done'

The Joint Committee on Human Rights is troubled by the Bill itself and the Government's use of inflammatory language to describe lawyers representing those who have been harmed by unlawful mistreatment at the hands of the UK Armed Forces.
October 20, 2020

UK refuses to assist Police Scotland investigation into torture and rendition

Police Scotland are investigating the use of Scottish airports to facilitate torture and rendition in 2013, and the Lord Advocate in 2014 ordered them to examine potentially vital evidence held in the US Senate report.
October 17, 2020

Commons passes agent crime bill without limits

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, which grants every police force in Britain, MI5 and a broad range of other governmental bodies the power to authorise undercover agents to commit crimes, has passed its third reading in the Commons
October 15, 2020

Shackling of people with mental health conditions 'common' worldwide, says new report

Shackling people with mental health conditions is a widespread brutal practice that is an open secret in many communities, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
September 25, 2020

EU must stop collaborating in abuse of Libyan refugees, says Amnesty

People risking their lives to seek safety in Europe are taken back to Libya where they are subjected to torture and extortion.
September 18, 2020

MP demands access to secret hearings on torture

The Government’s push for secrecy follows the emergence of evidence revealing that there may be at least 15 further cases where the UK was complicit in torture and rendition.
September 12, 2020

'De facto decriminalisation of torture' to be debated in Commons

The Overseas Operations Bill protects the Government at the expense of our men and women in uniform, says Reprieve.

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