APPG News
APPG holds AGM, welcomes new members
The APPG today held its AGM and welcomed the following new members: Imran Hussain MP, Richard Graham MP, Dr Matthew Offord MP and Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP.
APPG founder Rt Hon Lord Tyrie was appointed as Co-Chair, with Rt Hon Ken Clarke MP remaining as Chair.
Read the AGM minutes here.
Ken Clarke: Government response to Intelligence and Security Committee reports on rendition "an exercise in evasion"
APPG Chair Ken Clarke has today criticised the government’s attempt to bury its response to the Intelligence and Security Committee reports into detainee mistreatment and rendition.
UK spy agencies knew source of false Iraq war intelligence was tortured
Middle East Eye reveals today that British intelligence agencies fed questions to the interrogators of a captured terrorism suspect whom they knew was being seriously mistreated in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, and ministers then relied upon his answers to help justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
UK anti-torture policy 'unfit for purpose', says APPG
As covered in today's Financial Times, the APPG has responded to the public consultation on the UK's anti-torture policy, by calling the policy 'unfit for purpose and insufficient to prevent a repeat of UK involvement in rendition and torture.'
Lord Tyrie: We must 'get to the truth on rendition'
APPG Founder, Lord Tyrie, speaking in the House of Lords on the occasion of his maiden speech, has renewed his calls for a judge-led inquiry into UK involvement in extraordinary rendition.
New report released on CIA rendition and torture programme
The North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture has published the report of its investigation into North Carolina’s involvement in torture and rendition.