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• Labour must not rubber-stamp torture policy, say campaigners

  18-05-2025 14:10
  Policy review of intelligence-sharing with foreign countries risks leaving ‘very serious flaws’, say NGOs and MPsLabour has been accused of rubber-stamping torture policy it criticised while in opposition for enabling UK complicity in serious human rights abuses overseas.The policies regulating British support for foreign security and intelligence services were blamed for facilitating injustices in cases such as those of Jagtar Singh Johal and Ali Kololo, and it was hoped Labour woul
  
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• Doctor criticises ‘lightweight’ assessment of impact of assisted dying

  18-05-2025 14:06
  Palliative care consultant says insufficient consideration given to how disadvantaged communities may be affectedMinisters have not adequately considered how assisted dying would affect disadvantaged communities, a palliative care doctor and clinical academic has said.Bradford-based Jamilla Hussain said the equality impact assessment for the assisted dying bill was “lightweight”, and her own findings had highlighted concerns that had not been reflected in the document. Continue readi
  
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• Will we ever see despots like Putin in court? It’s unlikely – and that’s the west’s fault too | Simon Tisdall

  18-05-2025 07:00
  The US, UK and others routinely flout international law. That’s why there’s scant hope for a new tribunal on crimes against UkraineIt’s tempting to hope the establishment last week of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, to give its full name, will lead to the speedy trial and indefinite incarceration of Vladimir Putin and senior Russian leaders. After all, the new court is backed by about 40 countries, including the UK, plus the EU and Council of Eur
  
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