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Foreign minister David Miliband stated the UK's official story that "Torture is abhorrent. Britain never supports or condones it", while simultaneously insisting that the UK's interrogation policy should not be made public. There is of course nothing new in these palpably false claims to virtue, that only a highly misinformed UK public could take seriously.
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==1950's Mau-Mau Uprising==
 
==1950's Mau-Mau Uprising==
After 50 years of denial, the UK government finally admitted that it had tortured Kenyans involved in the [[Wikipedia:Mau Mau Uprising|Mau Mau Uprising]].
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After over 50 years of denial, the UK government finally admitted that it had tortured Kenyans involved in the [[Wikipedia:Mau Mau Uprising|Mau Mau Uprising]].
  
 
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==2000's==
===Craig Murray===
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====Craig Murray (Uzbekistan)====
 
[[Craig Murray]] was the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan until he resigned in 2004, citing UK support for torture as a major reason.
 
[[Craig Murray]] was the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan until he resigned in 2004, citing UK support for torture as a major reason.
  
===Binyam Mohamed===
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====Ben Griffin (Iraq)====
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Griffin_(British_Army_soldier) Ben Griffin] worked in the [[SAS]] for 8 years and in February 2008 game a speech condemning the UK's complicity in torture<ref>See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb50-ouA-IA this YouTube video]</ref>. He was immediately served with an injunction to try to prevent him from speaking further about his experiences in SAS<ref>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19444.htm</ref>.
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===Victims===
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====Binyam Mohamed====
 
Binyam Mohamed was taken prisoner by US forces in Afghanistan in 2003 and rendered to Guantanamo Bay in 2004. He was released without charge and returned to the UK as a free man in February 2009. <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyam_Mohamed Binyam Mohamed Wikipedia page]</ref>
 
Binyam Mohamed was taken prisoner by US forces in Afghanistan in 2003 and rendered to Guantanamo Bay in 2004. He was released without charge and returned to the UK as a free man in February 2009. <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binyam_Mohamed Binyam Mohamed Wikipedia page]</ref>
  

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Foreign minister David Miliband stated the UK's official story that "Torture is abhorrent. Britain never supports or condones it", while simultaneously insisting that the UK's interrogation policy should not be made public. There is of course nothing new in these palpably false claims to virtue, that only a highly misinformed UK public could take seriously.

1950's Mau-Mau Uprising

After over 50 years of denial, the UK government finally admitted that it had tortured Kenyans involved in the Mau Mau Uprising.

2000's

Whistleblowers

Craig Murray (Uzbekistan)

Craig Murray was the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan until he resigned in 2004, citing UK support for torture as a major reason.

Ben Griffin (Iraq)

Ben Griffin worked in the SAS for 8 years and in February 2008 game a speech condemning the UK's complicity in torture[1]. He was immediately served with an injunction to try to prevent him from speaking further about his experiences in SAS[2].

Victims

Binyam Mohamed

Binyam Mohamed was taken prisoner by US forces in Afghanistan in 2003 and rendered to Guantanamo Bay in 2004. He was released without charge and returned to the UK as a free man in February 2009. [3]

Mohamed is currently (July 2010) pressing a civil action in the UK courts against the UK government alleging complicity in his torture and secret rendition.

After prolonged argument in the court, with the government and its security services strenuously opposed to their release, a series of documents were finally released to the public on 12 July 2010. The following is a list of links to pdf files of those documents, together with others relevant to the Binyam Mohamed case and held on the WikiSpooks site. The file names are fairly descriptive of content and there is additional information including file sizes at each of the links:

Legal Framework

In 1978, charged before the European Court of Human Rights with torturing IRA suspects, Britain swore "a solemn undertaking" that it would never again deploy these psychological torture techniques. (developed in conjunction with the US). On December 7 2005 the House of Lords cited this case and branding torture "an unqualified evil" which should have no place in the proud, thousand-year tradition of British justice.[4]

References