Document Details | APPG responds to High Court ruling re Binyam Mohamed

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Description	All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition House of Commons Press release: Immediate, Thursday 21 August 2008 UK complicit in extraordinary rendition; Intelligence and Security Committee may have been misled in relation to the rendition of Binyam Mohamed – Tyrie. Andrew Tyrie MP said: “This is an extremely significant ruling on at least two grounds.” “First, it confirms the concern that led me to form the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition in the beginning, that the UK is complicit in extraordinary rendition. By that I mean that the UK is complicit in the US programme of kidnapping people and taking them to places where they may be tortured.” “The judgment makes clear that, contrary to UK protestations to the contrary, the British Government ‘facilitated’ the alleged wrongdoing by the United States in this case. It is now widely accepted that Binyam Mohamed was tortured when rendered to Morocco, and in a most brutal manner.” “The judges also held that the UK authorities had facilitated Binyam Mohamed’s treatment at the hands of the US: ‘the relationship of the United Kingdom Government to the United States authorities in connection with BM was far beyond that of bystander or witness to the alleged wrongdoing’.” “Secondly, the Intelligence and Security Committee may have been misled over the Binyam Mohamed case. Following requests from me and others, the Intelligence and Security Committee examined the role of the intelligence services in Binyam Mohamed’s rendition and mistreatment last year. The Report found that the intelligence services had a ‘lack of knowledge, at that time, of any possible consequences of US custody of detainees’.” “However, the High Court, having seen the evidence, found that ‘the SyS were supplying information as well as questions which they knew were to be used in interviews of BM from the time of his arrest whilst he was held incommunicado and without access to a lawyer or review by a court or tribunal. They continued to supply information and questions after they knew of the circumstances of BM’s detention and treatment as contained in the reports of the series of interviews in May 2002 and after September 2002 when they must have appreciated the circumstances related to his continued detention…’ (para 87, x) ‘the SyS continued to facilitate interviews by the United States authorities after September 2002 when they also knew BM was still incommunicado and when they must have appreciated that he was not in a United States facility and that the facility in which he was being questioned and detained was that of a foreign government…and that the United States authorities had direct access to information being obtained from him’.” (para 88, iv) “I will be writing to the Committee, to ask it to go back and obtain an explanation. If this is not forthcoming, the Committee will need to reopen its inquiry into British involvement in the US rendition programme.” “Extraordinary rendition has made the world less secure from dangerous extremism, not more. It acts as a recruiting sergeant for extremist groups worldwide. Extremism can only be tackled from the moral high ground – we cannot afford to undermine the values that we are seeking to export. It is also important that we get closure on this. This requires full transparency from the Government so that the public can have confidence the UK will never again be complicit in the US rendition programme.” Ends.
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