Caron Lindsay

LibLink: Jeremy Browne MP on the Government’s actions to prevent torture

By | Wed 1st February 2012 - 10:58 am

Liberal Democrat Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne  in the Guardian about the Coalition’s strategy to prevent torture throughout the World and about the independent enquiry which will investigate whether Britain was implicated in torture after 9/11:

We know that we face a long and difficult road ahead. But our vision is for people to be treated fairly and able to speak freely in every country. We should never be comfortable with a world where journalists, lawyers and activists endure ill treatment for criticising their governments. This is a core part of what this coalition stands for, and we will continue to fight for justice and equality wherever and whenever we can.

You can read the article in full here.

* Caron Lindsay is Co-Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings

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2 Comments

  • jason 1st Feb '12 - 1:10pm

    I note the FO are very quiet about the Libyan situation.
    Medicins Sans Frontieres…. ‘Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for more interrogation.’

    Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose

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