Britain says will release parts of secret report on rendition

(Reuters) - Britain will publish parts of a confidential report on its role in the U.S. "rendition" of foreign terrorism suspects, its envoy to the main U.N. human rights forum said on Tuesday.

The announcement came in response to a demand from a special U.N. investigator that the United States and Britain publish their own findings on rendition, a policy used under former U.S. President George W. Bush to snatch suspected Islamist militants abroad and interrogate them in secret detention.

Ben Emmerson, counter-terrorism investigator for the United Nations Human Rights Council, said on Tuesday it must hold "all states including the most powerful nations in the world to account".

"The exposure of the criminal matrix organised by the Bush-era CIA (the U.S. intelligence agency), from the heart of the world's most powerful democracy, now calls for an unequivocal response from all of the states that took part in the programme," Emmerson said.

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