Document Details | Pressure builds on Blair to say 'No' to US on rendition

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Description	ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP ON EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION Press Release – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22nd November 2006 Pressure builds on Blair to say ‘No’ to US on Rendition Andrew Tyrie MP, Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition has today written to the Prime Minister. Mr Tyrie said: ‘The results of the US elections, and the replacement of Donald Rumsfeld by Robert Gates, mean that changes can be expected in the way the US conducts the war in Iraq, and combats terrorism. I have today written to Tony Blair asking him to make it clear to the US that the UK wants to see the end of the repugnant practice of rendition. It looks disingenuous at best, and deceitful at worst, when, on the one hand, the government condemns Guantanamo, and says it doesn’t support torture, yet on the other, fails to utter a word to the US about their continuing policy of sending suspects to secret overseas facilities where they may either be tortured by foreign officials, or subject to ‘alternative’ interrogation techniques by the CIA.’ He continued: ‘Silence from the government on this issue means that we are giving the US the green light to extract information under torture. Extraordinary rendition must stop. The British government need to play a part in bringing it to an end, not in perpetuating it.’ He concluded: ‘I will be travelling to Washington in December, with Norman Lamb MP, the Vice-Chair of the APPG, to seek to persuade the relevant Congressional Committees to launch enquiries into America’s use of rendition and her allies’ role in it.’ Ends
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