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dipsydoodle

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Sat Jun 28, 2014, 12:32 PM Jun 2014

UK urged to tell all on US rendition flights

Human rights groups seeking to confirm the use of a British overseas territory as a US secret prison have uncovered evidence previously undisclosed to the government confirming that more planes were involved in the extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects around the world than had been admitted.

The revelation has raised fresh questions about the role played by Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean leased to the Americans and which campaigners allege has been used to hold suspects out of sight of lawyers and in contravention of basic human rights.

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The revelation comes as the US Senate prepares to declassify a report that could confirm the use of Diego Garcia as a "black site". Earlier this month the Foreign Affairs Select Committee published a report that warned that the credibility of US assurances given to Britain about Diego Garcia had been "severely damaged". Proof that the atoll was used as a black site would be hugely damaging for British-American relations.

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"We know the government holds crucial data on flights passing through Diego Garcia which it has so far refused to release," said Crofton Black, investigator for Reprieve. "Meanwhile, there are growing suspicions that the UK may be seeking to redact embarrassing information from the US Senate's report on renditions. Unless ministers come clean on these key issues, neither parliament nor the public will be able to have any confidence in the bland reassurances the government has provided concerning UK torture complicity."

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