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"No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
Article 3, European Convention on Human Rights.
The European Convention on Human Rights gives member states the flexibility to allow for emergency situations, but no room for compromise on the question of torture.
The Convention's authors had survived the Second World War, seen people liberated from concentration camps and witnessed the worst acts of barbarity. They could not contemplate a situation where torture or inhuman or degrading treatment could be justified. Neither can we.
Yet our Government is attempting to sidestep, ignore and undermine our legal and moral obligations to prevent torture.
Liberty believes that by involving ourselves in torture – even if we are not actually torturing people ourselves – we make a mockery of our status as a civilised country and we lose any ability to press other countries to respect human rights.Press Releases
Liberty welcomes police investigation into Binyam Mohamed torture case
- The Attorney General announced today that she has asked the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to investigate British involvement in the alleged kidnap and torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed.
- 26.03.2009
Liberty and the American Civil Liberties Union build “new special relationship”
- Executive Director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero, and Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti have met with Government officials and leading Parliamentarians with the purpose of establishing a new Anglo-American alliance based on respect for civil liberties and human rights.
- 27.01.2009
Law Lords to consider “deportation to torture” appeals
- Details of Algeria’s human rights record should not be subject to secret hearings by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) when determining if Algerian nationals are to be returned to the risk of torture, said the human rights group Liberty today.
- 23.10.2008
Independent inquiry announced into the circumstances surrounding the death of Baha Mousa
- Liberty response to the announcement of an independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa.
- 14.05.2008
Ministry of Defence admits human rights violation of Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa and others
- The Ministry of Defence today admitted violating the human rights of Iraqi Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist who died in 2003 after sustaining 93 injuries while in UK detention in Iraq.
- 27.03.2008
European Court of Human Rights upholds absolute prohibition against torture
- Today the European Court of Human Rights upheld the absolute prohibition against torture requiring Governments to protect individuals who may face torture in their home country.
- 28.02.2008
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Policy Briefings
- Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Sept 05, PDF
- Briefing on a private member's bill, which, if enacted, would enable torture survivors in the UK to bring a civil claim for compensation in the courts of England and Wales against the officials and States responsible for their torture, April 08
- Liberty’s evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on UK
legislation relating to genocide, torture and related offences, March 2009 (PDF)
More Information
- Read the pledge against torture we have made with Reprieve.
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