APPG on Extraordinary Rendition

The chairman of the APPG Andrew Tyrie MP writes to Prime Minister David Cameron to ask when the new Government intends to publish guidelines for the intelligence services on the treatment and interviewing of detainees overseas.

In a letter dated 31 March 2010, Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw reponded to the APPG's legislative proposals on extraordinary rendition. In it, he rejects the proposals for reforming the law and repeats his refusal to ask the US Government about circuit rendition flights.

On 16 March 2010 Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the APPG, made a submission to the Iraq Inquiry on extraordinary rendition from Iraq. He asked them to consider the official and unofficial policies in place on the transfer of detainees, and to investigate the case of two detainees captured by British forces and handed to US forces who were later rendered to Afghanistan.

On Monday 22nd March, the APPG on Extraordinary Rendition, Amnesty International UK, Human Rights Watch, Liberty and Reprieve published a joint open letter with proposals for an inquiry into British involvement in extraordinary rendition and mistreatment of detainees abroad.

Andrew Tyrie writes to Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Jack Straw in response to his Written Answer to Jo Swinson, about the APPG's legislative proposals.