UK: Promises on Torture Don't Work
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/10/06/uk9459.htm
"Diplomatic Assurances" will not Protect Deportees The British government has said it is seeking ?diplomatic assurances? that terrorism suspects deported to their home countries will not be tortured there. It argues that, on receipt of such assurances, the men?many of whom have been held without trial for more than two years?could safely be deported. But experience shows that these assurances are an ineffective safeguard against torture, Human Rights Watch said today.