(UK Foreign Secretary) Hague backs inquiry into torture allegations

[sabra]

Source: BBC

Foreign Secretary William Hague is to order an inquiry into allegations that the UK's security services were complicit in torture overseas.

Mr Hague said the investigation would be "judge-led" and details of it would be announced "pretty soon".

The Conservatives and Lib Dems have long urged an inquiry into claims by UK resident Binyam Mohamed British agents were aware of his torture at US hands.

The former Labour government insists the UK did not use or condone torture.

The UK's human rights watchdog, civil liberties campaigners and two Commons committees have all demanded an independent inquiry into claims Mr Mohamed was tortured, with British knowledge, after his arrest in Pakistan in 2002.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8696559.stm

[Soylent Brice]

1. K&R

[Bette Noir]

2. When do they get to Cheney?

[truebrit71]

3. Yet more proof that things are 'through the looking glass' in the UK...

...when the right-wing party is the one that defends civil liberties and not the "left-wing" party things are bizzaro indeed..I hope they string the poodle up by his nads..

[libodem]

4. About time