UK 'was involved in rendition'

19 December 2013 Last updated at 07:15 ET

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There is evidence Britain was inappropriately involved in the rendition and ill-treatment of terror suspects, an inquiry has revealed.

Ken Clarke is briefing MPs on the findings of an inquiry into allegation of wrongdoing in MI5 and MI6 in the wake of 9/11.

There is no evidence British officers were directly involved in torture, said Mr Clarke.

Retired judge Sir Peter Gibson has reviewed 20,000 top secret documents.

Sir Peter told reporters: "It does appear from the documents that the United Kingdom may have been inappropriately involved in some renditions. That is a very serious matter. And no doubt any future inquiry would want to look at that."

The report does not offer final conclusions because it did not have the chance to interview witnesses. Instead it sets out the issues Mr Gibson feels need to be examined further.

It identifies 200 possible instances of involvement or awareness of mistreatment - of these 40 cases were investigated in depth as considered most illustrative of the issues.

There are no details of individual cases - just the issues raised by them collectively. They point to awareness and possible complicity in mistreatment but not direct torture or mistreatment by British intelligence officers.

Key quotes from the report include:

• "There are issues as to whether the government and the agencies may have become inappropriately involved in some cases of rendition"
• "The documents received by the inquiry indicate that in some instances UK intelligence officers were aware of inappropriate interrogation techniques and mistreatment or allegations of mistreatment of some detainees by liaison partners from other countries."
• "Documents provided to the inquiry show that in some instances there was a reluctance to raise treatment issues for fear of damaging liaison relationships."
• "There is an issue as to whether agencies raised allegations of mistreatment of detainees with liaison partners with sufficient vigour."

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