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The report, which was published by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the Open Society Foundations, accuses the US Government of directing medical personnel to ignore their professional code of ethics and collaborate in security practices that were detrimental to the detainees and constituted torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.  Ethics Abandoned can be read here.  More can be read here.

The uncorrected transcript from the session, held on 7 November 2013, can be read here.

The Westminster Hall debate on the Oversight of the Intelligence and Security Services, held on 31 October 2013, can be read here.

A Senate Select Committee report describes the structure of its classified report on the US rendition programme.  The rendition report is divided into three volumes: Part I covers the History and Operation of the Detention and Interrogation Programme Part 2 covers the Intelligence Acquired and CIA Representations on the Effectiveness of the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Techniques  Part 3 covers the Detention and Interrogation of Detainees More can be read here.

Lawyers for the Government argued that Mr Belhaj's case against MI5, MI6 and former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw should be thrown out of court because any unlawful act did not take place in the UK.  A witness for the FCO also testified that allowing the case to proceed could harm relations with other countries.  Belhaj, a Libyan dissident under Qaddafi's regime, and his then-pregnant wife, Fatima Bouchar, were rendered from Bangkok to Tripoli, where he was tortured.  More can be read here. 

At a Heny Jackson Society event held on 30 September 2013, former CIA Director Michael Hayden reflected on the extraordinary rendition programme and its consequences.  The full transcript of the talk can be found here.