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The truth about torture?
Jim Riley
8th February 2009
‘They cut off my clothes with a scalpel. Maybe I was going to be raped, electrocuted, castrated.’
News and comment has been dominated this weekend by analysis of the use of torture by UK and US intelliegence officials in relation to the so called war on terror.
This is important in relation to civil liberties as well executive/judicial relations.
Background on the Binyam Mohamed case is here. Allegations of torture contained in Mohamed’s diary.
Was the UK government, all the way up to Tony Blair, complicit by remaining silent?
Miliband’s role in this.
Shami Chakrabarti’s somewhat controversial comments on Question Time last week on the YouTube clip.