Tortures

A global report last night made a blistering attack on the UK Government for its ‘evasion, denial and delays’ over establishing the truth about Britain’s complicity in torture.

There had been ‘no significant progress in holding those responsible to account’, said the group, which had reviewed human-rights abuses around the world.

In December, a US Senate intelligence committee revealed the most gruesome detail about the CIA’s torture programme, which included subjecting detainees at a network of secret jails to beatings, waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other forms of torture.

UK's 'evasion and denial' is savaged in report that seeks to establish the truth about British spies' complicity in torture