Document Details | Press release re Foreign Secretary's Statement on Rendition

Details for Press release re Foreign Secretary's Statement on Rendition - 03.07.08
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Name	Press release re Foreign Secretary's Statement on Rendition - 03.07.08
Description	All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition, House of Commons Press release: Immediate, 3 July 2008 The Foreign Secretary’s Statement on Rendition today doesn’t take us far – Andrew Tyrie MP. “It is very regrettable that despite repeated requests by the APPG, the Foreign Secretary has failed to obtain the necessary assurances that British territory was not used for rendition. Following the revelations that two rendition flights had refuelled at Diego Garcia, I welcomed the Foreign Secretary’s decision to send a list of flights for checking to the US. But the Foreign Secretary has not asked the right questions. He has failed to ask questions about flights through the UK on the way to or from a rendition.” “Providing assistance to a plane on the way to or from a rendition could constitute complicity in any subsequent torture of the detainee. Yet despite my requests, the Government persists in refusing to ask questions of the US on this issue. The Foreign Secretary must now ask the US, as a matter of urgency, whether any of the flights on the list that I provided to him, compiled as result of extensive work by others, were on the way to or from a rendition.” “Any involvement in extraordinary rendition, that is, the process whereby people have been kidnapped around the world and taken to places where they may be maltreated or tortured, would be extremely serious.” Ends.
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