Let’s challenge US ‘torture flight’ assurances

THE British Foreign Secretary has admitted that two rendition flights carrying prisoners were refuelled on Diego Garcia, a British territory in the Indian Ocean.

This fact had been strenuously denied by the US and British governments several times in the past.

The British government had accepted US ‘diplomatic assurances’ that British territory had not been used for the rendition of prisoners to jails in Guantanamo and elsewhere.