Saturday 17 December 2011

Hague Grilled Over Drone Strikes

Richard Stein, head of human rights at Leigh Day & Co, said: "This legal action simply looks to ask a number of questions of our government regarding UK involvement in the drone strikes in Pakistan which, it is estimated, have killed thousands of people within a country we are not militarily engaged with and therefore, we believe, are against international law.
"We ask the foreign secretary whether any information is being passed by agents of the UK government to US government forces to assist in these attacks.
"Unless it is categorically denied that the UK continues to pass such information to the US government forces, we require a clear policy statement of the arrangements which are in place and circumstances in which the UK considers it to be lawful to do so." In full.

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