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| Name | Police to Investigate Binyam Mohamed Allegations - 26.03.09 |
| Description | Police to investigate Security Service involvement in the case of Binyam Mohamed. Andrew Tyrie MP responds to the Attorney General’s statement today, confirming that she has referred the allegations of possible criminal wrongdoing in relation to Binyam Mohamed, to the police. Andrew Tyrie MP said: “I welcome the Attorney General’s decision to refer these allegations to the police. This is long overdue. It was likely, once the High Court ruled that the UK had ‘facilitated’ the incommunicado interrogation of Binyam Mohamed and that its involvement ‘was far beyond that of a bystander or witness to the alleged wrongdoing’, in August last year.” “This police investigation will look only into the case of Binyam Mohamed, not the many other allegations and the wider issue of British involvement in rendition. Nor does the Prime Minister’s recent call for the Intelligence and Security Committee to reopen its examination into rendition go far enough in addressing these wider concerns. The ISC does not have the mandate to examine all the issues surrounding extraordinary rendition.” “The Binyam Mohamed case has brought to public attention just one of a series of specific and serious allegations on rendition that need to be investigated. We need a judge-led inquiry, as Lord Carlile, the government’s own independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has concluded. Only a judge-led inquiry can enable us to draw a line under all of this, and give the public confidence that we will finally get to the truth on rendition.” “The experience of the last few years makes a full inquiry essential: since I began investigating rendition I have made a number of specific allegations, on Diego Garcia, Binyam Mohamed, and detainee handovers by UK Forces. On each of these, the Government provided assurances that there was nothing to worry about. And on each of these, Ministers have been forced to come to the House to correct those inaccurate assurances.” Ends. |
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Reply from Sir Peter Gibson - 01.07.11
We have reached a fork in the road (5706)Events
4 July 2011: the APPG's book, Account Rendered: Extraordinary Rendition and Britain's Role, is published by Biteback Publishing.
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