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Written Question Commons
31 Jan 2017
Internment: Northern Ireland
Lady Hermon Independent → Ministry of Defence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the undertaking given by the then Attorney-General on 8 February 1977, that the five techniques of questioning used in Northern Ireland in 1971, have not in any circumstances been reintroduced since then

Government answer
Ministry of Defence The undertaking made in 1977 continues to be Government policy, but it was regrettably breached on occasions during operations in Iraq in circumstances described fully in the Report of the Baha Mousa Inquiry (HC1452) published on 8 September 2011. Remedia... Read full answer →