Blakeley, R. orcid.org/0000-0001-8794-962X and Raphael, S. (2019) The prohibition against torture: why the UK government is falling short and the risks that remain. The Political Quarterly, 90 (3). pp. 408-415. ISSN 0032-3179
Abstract
While the UK’s official position is that it neither uses nor condones torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment (CIDT), it is now a matter of public and parliamentary record that UK security services and military personnel colluded in rendition, torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, both as part of the CIA’s Rendition, Detention and Interrogation (RDI) programme, at military detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq, and through involvement in the detention and interrogation of prisoners by allied security forces. This paper will explain why the government is falling short of its obligations under international law, and why considerable risks remain that UK intelligence and security services will continue to collude in torture and CIDT.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Authors. The Political Quarterly published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Political Quarterly Publishing Co (PQPC). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
Keywords: | Torture; CIDT; rendition; UDHR; human rights abuses |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2019 08:49 |
Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2021 09:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1467-923X.12688 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145389 |