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The APPG has received an additional 42 pages of document production in response to its FOIA request of 17 November 2008.   The documents can be read here.

The ISC has issued a call for evidence for its forthcoming investigation into extraordinary rendition to examine issues raised by the now-defunct Detainee Inquiry.   More can be read here.

Previously undisclosed accounts of brutality are allegedly contained in the Senate report.  More can be read here.

According to the Foreign Office records, Diego Garcia received 3.25 inches of rain in the month of June, compared to an average of 5.4 inches of rain.  In response to a parliamentary question asked by Andrew Tyrie and Paul Flynn in July, the Foreign Office responded that Diego Garcia flight records had been water damaged due to 'extremely heavy weather in June 2014'.   More can be read here.

Questions remain as to whether the British Government allowed the US to detain terror suspects on Diego Garcia.  More can be read here and here.

In an editorial in the Independent, Andrew Tyrie asks 'Why is the truth on torture so long in coming'?  The article can be read here.