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British agencies participated in interviews with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay US Detention Center
The United Kingdom has tolerated the "inexcusable" treatment of American detainees after the attacks of September 11, MPs said.
The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) stated that it was "beyond doubt".
The United Kingdom continued to provide intelligence to its allies in 232 cases where British officials knew or suspected ill-treatment, according to his report.
The ISC found no "smokers' weapon" indicating a deliberate policy of negligence. Prime Minister Theresa May said UK staff were working in "a new and challenging operating environment" for which some were "unprepared".
She added "it took too much time to recognize that the advice and training of the staff was inadequate", and that the British secret service and the army were "much better placed to meet this challenge". that the detailed cases were only "isolated incidents".
The report added: "There is no doubt that the United States, and others, abused detainees, just as the agencies and intelligence services were aware of it."
Most critics for the MI6 but interesting to see the GCHQ are also criticized because they share the most intelligence with the United States and have played a role in the detention of certain detentions
– Gordon Corera (19459023) June 28, 2018 Gordon Corera, BBC correspondent for security, said the report showed that there was "no evidence of direct ill-treatment "by the British intelligence services, but that there were" 13 cases where spies witnessed an inmate being abused by others ".
He adds that the ISC criticizes the British Foreign Intelligence Service MI6 and its listening service GCHQ for "playing a role in detaining"
The report adds that "more would have could be done "by security agencies and ministers Tony Blair's government tried to influence American behavior
SAI said British resident Binyam Mohamed, a native of Ethiopia, had was detained in Pakistan in 2002 and that MI5 and MI6 had been informed by US agents that he was deprived of sleep.
The report states that MI5 did not respond to this information until its own officer arrived to question Mr. Mohamed.
The rendering or restitution involves sending a person from one country to another to imprison and interrogate him, probably by methods such as torture, which would be illegal in the country rendering.
the agencies used the process of "extraordinary rendition" to send terrorist suspects interrogated by security agents in other countries, where they do not enjoy any legal protection or rights under US law .
The United States then secretly moved Mr. Mohamed to Morocco. tortured. The MI5 asked his American allies where he had gone and what had happened to him – but he was repulsed.
Despite this, says the report of the ISC, agencies have asked questions in the United States. Mr. Mohamed was then returned to the United Kingdom.
In the report, the SAI says that the government has "refused" to the committee access to "officers who were involved at the time" of the British involvement in restitution .
British citizen Moazzam Begg, previously detained at Guantanamo Bay, criticized the scope of the investigation is inadequate, stating "we still do not know the process of accountability."
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Speaking of his own detention, he was said: "British intelligence agents were physically there to watch, chained, with a gun to the head, threatened to be sent to Syria or Egypt if I"
"There was the noise of the night. a woman screaming in the next room, that made me believe that my wife was tortured.
Although there is no evidence that US rendition flights have transited through the United Kingdom, there is evidence that two detainees crossed the British Indian Ocean Diego Garcia, where records on the conditions under which they United Kingdom participation in the program of restitution of the United States
The United Kingdom participated in interviews between 2,000 and 3,000 American detainees after 2002
British agencies suggested, planned ] accepted a restitution operation in 28 cases
MI6 and MI5 offered to help finance a restitution operation on three occasions
The United Kingdom knew or suspected that detainees had been abused in 232 cases In 198 cases British agencies received information interrogations where they knew that detainees had been mistreated
British personnel threatened detainees in nine cases but there is no evidence that they abused
In a separate report, the committee stated that it was "astonishing" that the government did not establish a clear policy on restitution.
The SAI stated that the government's inability to ensure that the United States and other allies could not use the British territory to make the prisoners was "completely unsatisfactory ", especially since there was a" reorientation ".
The Reprieve Human Rights Campaign Group called for a judge-led investigation, saying that the SAI report was too limited.
Baroness Chakrabarti, the Labor Attorney General, echoed calls for a separate inquiry
She said: "In the days, months, and years after September 11, there was an understandable febrile atmosphere and the main partner in the special relationship., ie the United States, engaged in these most horrendous practices and, to some extent, the British government was there for the trip. "
