Jack Straw sued over 'rendition'

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 Jack Straw Faces Legal Action Over 'Rendition' Of Abdel Hakim Belhadj A Libyan military commander is taking legal action against Jack Straw following allegations the former foreign secretary personally permitted his illegal rendition. Lawyers representing Abdel Hakim Belhadj confirmed legal papers had been served on the Labour MP after reports suggested he had signed documents that allowed the rebel to be sent back to his homeland in 2004. Rather awkwardly for Straw, yesterday he appeared before the justice committee to say that the Freedom of Information Act, which he introduced, should be rewritten to protect secrecy in government decision-making. Government U-Turn On Legal Aid For Domestic Abuse Victims It Could Be 'Many Months' Before Qatada Is Deported, Says Theresa May FOI Law Should Be Changed To 'Protect Government Secrets' Ken: People Want To Vote For Boris Because He Makes People Laugh Champagne And A Bicycle Repair Kit Among Items Stolen From MPs BLOG POSTS Martin Davidson: We Must Engage With China Through Culture This year's London Book Fair is a sign of China's increasing international engagement and visibility. Elsewhere, by the end of August 2011, 353 Confucius Institutes had been established in 104 countries. There is no reason to think that this international cultural and educational expansion won't continue - the Chinese government aims to increase that total to one thousand by 2020. How things have changed. Jeremy Cliffe: Time for a British Sovereign Wealth Fund When David Cameron flew out to Asia last week, he did so on a Boeing 474 owned by Sonangol, the Angolan state oil company. Anyone minded to spot a narrative in these things might have called it a sign of the times; an embattled Prime Minister traveling East - on a plane owned by 'sub-Saharan Africa's first sovereign wealth fund' - to tempt Asian governments flush with foreign exchange to invest some of it in Britain's creaking infrastructure. Natalie Bennett: Let's Put the Safety of Prostitutes Ahead of Our Desire for a 'Clean' Olympic London There's no doubt this crackdown is putting workers in danger - there's a risk that it could result in deaths of vulnerable women and men. This surely isn't an Olympic legacy we want for London. David Bull: How Can Aid be Working When Millions Still Starve? With a hunger crisis sweeping across the Sahel affecting eight African countries and putting the fragile existences of a million children in jeopardy now may seem a strange time to be talking about the remarkable progress for the world's poorest children that has been achieved over the past 20 years. Laura Dunn: The Importance of Inclusion and Equality in Female Leadership I find it startling that in the second decade of the 21st century only 5% of Heads of State are women, examples including Queen Elizabeth II and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. We must do better to raise this statistic before the decade is out.

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