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Miliband faces MPs' questions over knowledge of rendition

Foreign secretary will not be able to refuse to testify before the Commons foreign affairs committee
The end of Guantánamo

Ken Gude: Americans are dying right now because of the existence of Guantánamo. Closing it responsibly will save American lives

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Inquiry clears US lawyers who approved torture at Guantánamo Bay

20 Feb 2010: Justice department finds John Yoo and Jay Bybee guilty of poor judgment but not professional misconduct
Shaker Aamer: last British resident held in Guantánamo Bay

19 Feb 2010: Shaker Aamer claims he was tortured by US with MI5 officers present after travelling to Afghanistan to do charity work
Police investigate claim MI5 was complicit in Shaker Aamer's torture

19 Feb 2010: Metropolitan police investigate claims the last UK resident held in Guantánamo Bay was tortured with MI5's knowledge
Untwisting facts on MI5

18 Feb 2010: Michael Mates: Sensationalism around Binyam Mohamed's case sullies spies – and their parliamentary scrutiny
Vice president Joe Biden accuses predecessor Dick Cheney of 'rewriting history and misrepresenting facts'

15 Feb 2010: White House number two responds to the latest anti-Obama tirade from Bush cabinet hawk
Torture claims and tangled tenses

15 Feb 2010: Letters: You don't need to 'encourage' others to torture to take advantage of their doing so, nor do you need to have colluded in it to be complicit
Ministers' tangled web over torture

13 Feb 2010: Letters: Why have we moved from a categorical assurance about the UK and torture to a statement of governmental policy objective?
Moazzam Begg: 'British intelligence were there at every stage of my detention'

12 Feb 2010: British Muslim held at Guantánamo Bay says Binyam Mohamed revelations are no surprise considering his own experience
Binyam Mohamed storm widens as Johnson defends MI5 over torture

12 Feb 2010: Home secretary blasts Lib Dems and media after Guardian revealed how government suppressed scathing court ruling
Intelligence, torture and the courts

12 Feb 2010: Letters: The allegation that our security and intelligence agencies have licence to collude in torture is disgraceful, untrue and one that we vigorously deny
The torture memos show how illegal wars turn even the nicest people bad

11 Feb 2010: Simon Jenkins: The deceit, the slaughter, the atrocity, the abuse of human rights. Today, Hannah Arendt's banality of evil is everywhere
Torture is a crime, not a state secret

11 Feb 2010:
Matthew Harwood: It's a convenient argument for both governments, but the Binyam Mohamed ruling will not harm UK-US intelligence co-operation
Binyam Mohamed case: would an inquiry clear the air?

11 Feb 2010: Michael White: Where an issue is as much about politics as it is about the law, would such an inquiry produce results that command respect? I am not sure it would
Binyam Mohamed: Torture and the missing paragraph

11 Feb 2010:
Editorial: This is a desperately serious state of affairs, whatever spin the government puts on it
MI5 faces crisis of credibility as torture denials are discredited

10 Feb 2010:
Call for public inquiry after Security Service loses legal battle to suppress court document showing involvement in ill-treatment of British resident Binyam Mohamed