Amnesty accuses UK of 'grave' human rights violations
'Credible evidence' of UK government links to torture, unlawful detentions and rendition, says damning Amnesty report
The British government is today accused of involvement in a catalogue of "grave human rights violations" since the September 2001 al-Qaida attacks, in a report published by Amnesty International.
In the most damning Amnesty report on the UK's human rights record for a generation, the organisation says there is "credible evidence" that the government is implicated in torture, unlawful detentions, rendition, the concealment of victims' complaints and a failure to disclose evidence of torture.
Its publication comes 24 hours after an alliance of human rights groups and MPs, including Amnesty, Liberty and the New York-based Human Rights Watch, wrote a joint letter to the British media demanding an independent inquiry into the UK's role in torture and rendition.
Read the Amnesty report here.
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