{"id":251180,"date":"2021-07-25T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/25\/foreign-office-is-complicit-in-british-mans-somalia-torture"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T07:30:45","slug":"foreign-office-is-complicit-in-british-mans-somalia-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/25\/foreign-office-is-complicit-in-british-mans-somalia-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Office is \u2018complicit in British man\u2019s Somalia torture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018David Taylor\u2019 claims hooding, sensory deprivation and waterboarding was to persuade him to cooperate with the CIA<\/p><p>A British citizen has claimed he was tortured in Somalia and questioned by US intelligence officers, raising concern that controversial practices of the post-9\/11 \u201cwar on terror\u201d are still being used.<\/p><p>The 45-year-old from London alleges he has endured hooding, sensory deprivation and waterboarding at the hands of the Somali authorities to persuade him, he believes, to cooperate with the CIA. Foreign Office officials are aware of the allegationsof torture and US involvement, but their failure to act has raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/jun\/28\/uks-role-in-rendition-and-torture-of-terrorism-suspects-key-findings\" title=\"\">questions over UK complicity. <\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/25\/foreign-office-is-complicit-in-british-mans-somalia-torture\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/25\/foreign-office-is-complicit-in-british-mans-somalia-torture\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018David Taylor\u2019 claims hooding, sensory deprivation and waterboarding was to persuade him to cooperate with the CIAA British citizen has claimed he was tortured in Somalia and questioned by US intelligence officers, raising concern that controversial pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,1727,1318,6,640,1258,14,445,1314,1315,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251180"}],"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\/2676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251181,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251180\/revisions\/251181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}