Liberty: Government is bending towards the security establishment
Shami Chakrabarti, director of independent human rights organisation Liberty, comments on the torture inquiry:
“An inquiry into British complicity in torture is welcome and overdue but this announcement leaves room for fears that government is bending towards the security establishment.
“They wouldn’t be in this mess but for all the excuses for secret stitch-ups instead of open justice.
“This inquiry can only be credible with the broadest remit, the most public proceedings possible and by full engagement with victims, witnesses and lawyers.
“Any attempt to exempt intelligence from legal scrutiny is an attempt to exempt the security services from the rule of law.”
