{"id":1576759,"date":"2024-03-27T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/27\/concern-rise-requests-uk-share-intelligence-despite-torture-risks"},"modified":"2024-03-27T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:09:47","slug":"concern-over-rise-in-requests-for-uk-to-share-intelligence-despite-torture-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/27\/concern-over-rise-in-requests-for-uk-to-share-intelligence-despite-torture-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern over rise in requests for UK to share intelligence despite torture risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK does not \u2018solicit, encourage or condone\u2019 inhumane treatment, but critics say ministerial approval system contradicts this<\/p><p>The number of requests for UK ministerial approval of intelligence-sharing where there was a real risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/torture\">torture<\/a>, unlawful killing or extraordinary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/rendition\">rendition<\/a> has more than doubled in a year.<\/p><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipco.org.uk\/news\/report-published-on-oversight-and-use-of-investigatory-powers\/\">investigatory powers commissioner\u2019s report<\/a> outlining the rise comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2024-03-25\/debates\/6735E9D5-265D-402B-A843-F20D4D80E3AD\/InvestigatoryPowers(Amendment)Bill(Lords)\">a parliamentary debate on Monday<\/a> in which MPs from across the political divide questioned the adequacy of the UK\u2019s policy on torture under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipco.org.uk\/news\/oversight-of-the-principles\/\">the Fulford principles<\/a>.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/27\/concern-rise-requests-uk-share-intelligence-despite-torture-risks\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/27\/concern-rise-requests-uk-share-intelligence-despite-torture-risks\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK does not \u2018solicit, encourage or condone\u2019 inhumane treatment, but critics say ministerial approval system contradicts thisThe number of requests for UK ministerial approval of intelligence-sharing where there was a real risk of torture, unlawful kill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4483,3384,6,640,14,1236,438,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576759"}],"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\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577344,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576759\/revisions\/1577344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}