LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) – Britain agreed on Wednesday to publish for the first time the guidance it gives intelligence agents when questioning suspects held overseas, following a series of torture allegations.
Former detainees, some of them British residents, have said they were tortured while held abroad with the knowledge — if not the direct participation — of British intelligence officers, raising allegations of collusion with torture.
Britain has denied involvement in torture or that it has sent terrorism suspects to third countries where they may be subjected to torture. But it has resisted holding a public inquiry into its involvement in what’s known as rendition.
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