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MI6 may have unilaterally assumed the power to authorise agents to commit crimes in the UK, a court has heard. Reprieve, the Pat Finucane Centre, Privacy International, and the Committee on the Administration of Justice have been challenging a secret policy under which MI5 authorises covert agents,

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In the case of Bin Ali Jaber v Germany, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, Germany, has ruled that the diplomatic efforts of the German government with regard to US drone missions in accordance with international law are sufficient. In March 2019, the Higher Administrative Court of Mü

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Only a handful of British families are now detained in north east Syria, a new report shows, "undermining" the UK government’s position that these families cannot be brought back to the UK. Government sources implied last year that over 300 British nationals might still be imprisoned in north

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David Davis MP is asking the High Court for access to secret court hearings into past UK involvement in torture. These secret hearings are taking place in the judicial review Mr Davis is bringing – along with Reprieve and Dan Jarvis MP – over the UK government's refusal to hold an indepe

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MI6 has been forced to apologise to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal after two of its officers asked court staff to return documents relating to MI6’s use of agents and not show them to judges. The tribunal suggested MI6’s actions were “inappropriate interference”. The revel

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There are at least 15 previously-unidentified cases of people who may have been tortured with UK complicity, it has been revealed as part of a High Court hearing in which the UK government is trying to have all evidence of the 15 cases heard in a secret court. The revelation came as part of a hearin

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Newly-declassified cables provide further details of the torture two men – Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah – were subjected to by the CIA during interrogations UK security services were aware of and sometimes supplied questions for. “Rule out nothing whatsoever th

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A court in Thailand has upheld two death sentences which the UK’s National Crime Agency has admitted it helped secure. The two defendants, Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo, are now at risk of imminent execution. Reprieve is calling on the UK government to seek a stay of execution for the two Burmese men,

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The UK government has indicated its preferred destination for British nationals detained in north-east Syria, explicitly opposing their transfer to the Assad regime or the US facility at Guantanamo Bay, but confirming it is in “regular discussions” with the government of Iraq about how t

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Lawyers for US citizen Bilal Abdul Kareem have filed their response to the government in a case that will establish whether the US can assassinate its own citizens, without telling them why or offering them their constitutional right to due process. Mr Kareem alleges that he was nearly killed by US

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