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The Prohibition against Torture: Why the UK Government is Falling Short and the Risks that Remain
Author(s) -
Blakeley Ruth,
Raphael Sam
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.12688
Subject(s) - torture , interrogation , government (linguistics) , law , political science , position (finance) , falling (accident) , criminology , human rights , computer security , business , sociology , medicine , environmental health , computer science , finance , philosophy , linguistics
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 .