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UK Questions Mount Over US 'Torture Flights'

Kevin Spak — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:01:09 CDT

Amid pressure British officials said yesterday that they were “working behind the scenes” to root out more information about the CIA rendition flights that landed on British soil, the Guardian reports. The UN’s special torture investigator has said there is credible evidence to suggest that the US ran a detention...

CIA: Rendition Flights Landed in UK Territory

Erin Mendell — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:17:00 CST

Two US flights carrying terror suspects for interrogation abroad—a practice known as extraordinary rendition—landed on British territory in 2002, confirmed CIA Director Michael Hayden today. Though the UK previously denied such landings, Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted planes refueled on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, reports...

UK Probes Charges That CIA Used Brit Prison for Torture

Wesley Oliver — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:43:33 CDT

British officials will investigate persistent claims that the CIA secretly interrogated terrorism suspects at a UK prison in the Indian Ocean, the Guardian reports. Authorities have repeatedly questioned American officials, who deny the reports. But an organization representing detainees insists the claims are true, adding that the British may be...

Islanders Win Bid to Return

Greg Atwan — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:01:37 CDT

Thousands of Indian Ocean islanders will be allowed to return home 30 years after being forced out to make room for a US air base, a British court ruled today. The court said the British government acted unlawfully when it expelled the Chagos archipelago residents after secretly selling a lease...