Tag Archives: Fatima Boudchar

Reprieve: Jack Straw rewriting UK #torture complicity history

Reprieve +44 (0) 207 553 8140 For immediate release: Monday Dec 14, 2015 UK torture complicity: Jack Straw’s comments do not fit with facts Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has reportedly today claimed that “the British government never condoned, nor … Continue reading

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Reprieve: UK spying on priviledged legal communications re renditions “rigs the whole justice game … “

Reprieve: +44 207 553 8161 For immediate release: Wed April 29, 2015 Secretive court orders GCHQ to destroy stolen documents   The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has today ordered intelligence agency GCHQ to destroy illegally collected communications of a … Continue reading

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Investigatory Powers Tribunal wants UK to continue secretly violating rights

Reprieve: +44 (0) 207 553 8160 For immediate release: Fri March 13 2015 Government fights to keep lawyer snooping details secret The UK government today argued that it should not have to admit to several Libyan renditions victims, or to … Continue reading

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Reprieve re oversight committees that wait till issues make the news

Reprieve: +44 (0) 207 553 8140 For immediate release: Thu March 12 2015   ISC report reveals it was ‘asleep at the wheel’ over lawyer-snooping allegations   A report published today by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) reveals that … Continue reading

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Reprieve: hearing Friday re UK spying on attorney/client communications

Reprieve: +44 (0) 207 553 8161 For immediate release: Tues March 10 2015 Hearing Friday over government spying on lawyer-client communications   This Friday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) will hold a hearing over UK government spying on privileged lawyer-client … Continue reading

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Reprieve: UK needs to come clean on lawyer-client snooping

Reprieve: +44 (0) 207 553 8140 For immediate release: Wed 18 February, 2015 Government concedes polices on lawyer-client snooping were unlawful   The UK Government has today conceded that its policies governing the ability of intelligence agencies to spy on … Continue reading

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Reprieve: Judge decides rendered couple deserve day in court, UK/US relations irrelevant

    Reprieve +44 (0) 207 553 8166  For immediate release: Thu Oct 30, 2014 Libyan rendition victims’ case must be heard, Court of Appeal rules Britain’s Court of Appeal has today ruled that a husband and wife who were … Continue reading

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Reprieve continues struggle for Sunshine on UK’s role in renditions

Reprieve +44 (0) 207 553 8166    For immediate release: Mon July 21, 2014 Libyan renditions case in court as UK ‘lobbies for secrecy’ in key torture report   The case brought by a husband and wife subjected to a 2004 … Continue reading

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