{"id":119751,"date":"2021-04-13T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/13\/peers-seek-to-block-limit-on-uk-soldiers-accountability-for-war-crimes"},"modified":"2021-04-13T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:24:54","slug":"peers-vote-to-halt-plans-to-limit-uk-soldiers-accountability-for-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/13\/peers-vote-to-halt-plans-to-limit-uk-soldiers-accountability-for-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Peers vote to halt plans to limit UK soldiers\u2019 accountability for war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High-profile defeat inflicted on government over five-year deadline proposed in overseas operations bill<\/p><p>Peers have inflicted a significant defeat on the government, voting by 333 to 228 to halt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/mar\/18\/bill-sets-five-year-limit-to-sue-uk-military-veterans-who-served-abroad\">plans to restrict prosecutions of torture and war crimes<\/a> by British soldiers serving abroad.<\/p><p>A group led by former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nato\">Nato<\/a> secretary general George Robertson, and supported by some former military chiefs, told peers they wanted torture and war crimes to be excluded from a five-year limit on prosecutions proposed in the overseas operations bill.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/sep\/20\/overseas-operations-bill-uk-government-bend-rules-torture-soldiers\">The UK government is attempting to bend the rules on torture | Nicholas Mercer<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/nov\/02\/labour-to-avoid-revolt-by-voting-against-overseas-operations-bill\">Labour to avoid revolt by voting against overseas operations bill<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/13\/peers-seek-to-block-limit-on-uk-soldiers-accountability-for-war-crimes\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/apr\/13\/peers-seek-to-block-limit-on-uk-soldiers-accountability-for-war-crimes\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-profile defeat inflicted on government over five-year deadline proposed in overseas operations billPeers have inflicted a significant defeat on the government, voting by 333 to 228 to halt plans to restrict prosecutions of torture and war crimes b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3385,6,906,640,10,2679,712,14,438,1314,166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119752,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119751\/revisions\/119752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}