UK Human Rights Litigation After the Iraq War
David Feldman, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law; January 17, 2012
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A UN official on Saturday expressed concern regarding the lack of transparency in an inquiry by the UK into allegations that its secret services were complicit in torture of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The UN's Special Rapporteur...
UK inquiry: Iraq citizen's death result of abuse by soldiers
A three-year probe into abuse of military detainees in Iraq was finalized Thursday with the release of a report that found numerous British soldiers were involved in specific episodes of abuse of Iraqi citizens. The independent inquiry was led...
A UK High Court on Tuesday denied an appeal from Iraqi citizens to open a single public inquiry into allegations of abuse by members of the British Armed Forces. The Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) ,...
UK Secretary of State for Defence Bob Ainsworth announced Monday that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) was prepared to establish an independent inquiry into the deaths of 20 Iraqis at a British base outside of...
UK troops refusing to detain insurgents due to rights law concerns: US official
US State Department legal advisor John B. Bellinger III ,told the Guardian newspaper Tuesday that British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are not detaining suspected insurgents in those countries due to concerns...
UK Defence Ministry admits soldiers unlawfully abused Iraqi detainees
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has admitted the unlawful abuse of nine Iraqi detainees, solicitors for the detainees announced Tuesday. As part of the settlement, the detainees are to receive damages of...
UK military may have used banned interrogation tactics in Iraq: rights panel
The armed forces of the United Kingdom may have used officially-banned tactics to interrogate detainees in Iraq, according to a report released Sunday by Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights . In previous testimony before the committee,...
Iraq detainees to get £2.8m settlement from UK Defence Ministry
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) reached a settlement Thursday with nine Iraqi men who say they were tortured while detained by British troops in Basra in 2003. A MOD spokesman said the military had...
UK forces alleged to be secretly holding Iraqi prisoners without charge
The British military has held the last two Iraqis in its custody without charge or access to lawyers for five years, similar to US detentions at Guantanamo, lawyers for the men alleged in a report published in the Independent...