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| Name | Madni Legal Action Press Release - 28.07.09 |
| Description | All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition House of Commons Press release: Immediate, Tuesday 28 July 2009 Andrew Tyrie MP comments on the Legal Action launched on behalf of Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, believed to have been one of the two detainees rendered through the British island of Diego Garcia in 2002. “It is two years since I first started asking questions about Diego Garcia in Parliament. In their replies the Government assured me that Diego Garcia had not been used in the rendition programme. They were then forced to make a statement flatly contradicting this. Even now we are being short-changed on the facts.” “So I am delighted that Reprieve has been able to deduce from those questions the probable identity of one of the people rendered through Diego Garcia. I have persistently asked the Government to provide comprehensive information and to investigate possible crimes in relation to these flights. It has failed to do so. In response to me the Foreign Office said that ‘despite enquiry, [they] have not been able to establish further details that would be essential for purposes of further investigation’. The clear implication is that the United States is withholding information about these two flights from the UK Government.” “The litigation announced today will contribute to the growing amount of information on rendition and British involvement in it. But the drip-drip of revelations about UK involvement in renditions is hugely damaging.” “I’ve been calling for a judge-led inquiry for some time. Lord Carlile, the Government’s own independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are all demanding one. It is now the only way to give the public confidence that we have got to the bottom of all of this, to draw a line under it and to move on.” 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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