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Name	Diego Garcia submissions to FAC press release
Description	Andrew Tyrie MP has today written to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, requesting that it investigates allegations of the use of British Territory in the US rendition programme as part of its inquiry into the Overseas Territories. Andrew Tyrie MP said: “There have been repeated allegations that the US has used the British Territory of Diego Garcia in its rendition programme. Yet the Government has done next to nothing to investigate them.” “Time and time again the UK Government has relied on US assurances on this issue, refusing to examine the truth of these allegations for themselves. These assurances come from the same Government that invented the rendition programme, authorised the use of techniques that all in the civilized world would call torture, and continues to hold hundreds in the moral and legal black hole of Guantanamo Bay.” “The UK Government continues to turn a blind eye to breaches of the rule of law. Extraordinary rendition, whereby people have been kidnapped around the world and taken to places where they may be maltreated or tortured, demands its attention. It is high time our Government took its head out of the sand and looked into these allegations for itself.” Ends.
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