Document Details | Human Rights Day press release 10 December 2007

Details for Human Rights Day press release 10 December 2007
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Name	Human Rights Day press release 10 December 2007
Description	On Human Rights Day 2007, Andrew Tyrie MP urges an end to extraordinary rendition. Andrew Tyrie MP said: “US policies such as extraordinary rendition, whereby people have been kidnapped around the world and taken to places where they may be tortured, threaten to erode fundamental liberties which many of us now take for granted. Yet the UK Government refuses to condemn this policy, or to put in place legislation that will give the public confidence we are not accomplices in the rendition programme.” “The proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on this day in 1948 was supposed to herald a new age of humanity in the ruins of the Second World War. But almost sixty years later the UK Government is still reluctant to uphold one of its fundamental provisions: the prohibition on torture.” “Torture and kidnapping are counterproductive in the battle against dangerous extremism, as well as immoral and illegal. Today, on Human Rights Day, it is time for our Government publicly to acknowledge this fact.”
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