Proposals to outlaw rendition in the UK drawn up
New criminal offences to outlaw the practice of extraordinary rendition – secretly transporting terror suspects to places where they are likely to be tortured – have been drawn up by a cross-party parliamentary committee.
They will close the gap in English law that has allowed the use of UK territory for the purposes of extraordinary rendition in the past, Andrew Tyrie, Conservative MP for Chichester, said today.
The all party parliamentary group (APPG) on extraordinary rendition, recommends criminalising various acts, including the use of British facilities for extraordinary rendition flights and the failure to prevent extraordinary rendition flights using those facilities. The proposal will also ban so-called "circuit flights" – using UK airports for flights passing through the UK to enable a rendition but without a detainee on board at the time.
