Brits Admit Rendition

The admission by Great Britain's Defense Minister, John Hutton, that the UK participated in the US practice of extraordinary rendition has outraged for UK human rights activists and policy makers. After denying for five years that UK captures were transferred to third countries for interrogation, the Ministry of Defense has now acknowledged two men captured in Iraq in 2004 were transferred to the United States and "rendered" to Afghanistan. The men are still in US custody there. The Ministry of Defense maintains that it was not complicit in rendition, but it did violate as US-UK agreement by handing over suspects captured in Iraq to the Americans.

Related reading:

• Human Rights and Terrorism: An Overview
• Torture and Interrogation in a Time of Terror(Marvin Zalman)
• Torture and Extraordinary Rendition (Tom Head)