{"id":129620,"date":"2014-07-11T02:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=129620"},"modified":"2014-07-11T20:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:23:59","slug":"british-government-accused-cover-rendition-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/british-government-accused-cover-rendition-files\/","title":{"rendered":"British Government Accused Of &#8216;Cover-up&#8217; Over Rendition Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #282828;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #282828;\">A\u00a0director at legal charity Reprieve, which is representing Libyan Abdel Hakim Belhadj who claims he was on a rendition flight through Diego Garcia, has slammed the\u00a0Foreign Office\u2019s excuse for losing\u00a0rendition flight records, labelling it a cover-up.<\/p>\n<p>Cori Crider, a director at the\u00a0charity, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8221;It&#8217;s looking worse and worse for the UK government on Diego Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;First we learn the Senate&#8217;s forthcoming torture report says detainees were held on the island, and now \u2014 conveniently \u2014 a pile of key documents turn up missing with &#8216;water damage&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The Government might as well have said the dog ate their homework. This smacks of a cover-up. They now need to come clean about how, when, and where this evidence was lost.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129621\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129621\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Diego-Garcia-009.jpg\" alt=\"Diego Garcia is leased to the US for use. Its role in the rendition programme is unclear. Photograph: Reuters Photographer \/ Reuters\/Reuters\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Diego-Garcia-009.jpg 460w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Diego-Garcia-009-75x45.jpg 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Diego-Garcia-009-150x90.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Diego-Garcia-009-383x230.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diego Garcia is leased to the US for use. Its role in the rendition programme is unclear. Photograph: Reuters Photographer \/ Reuters\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #282828;\">\n<p style=\"color: #282828;\">The records, if compete, would cast new light on the UK&#8217;s complicity in the CIA\u2019s extraordinary rendition programme, Foreign Office are claiming that documents have been lost due to \u201cwater damage\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RINF Alternative News A\u00a0director at legal charity Reprieve, which is representing Libyan Abdel Hakim Belhadj who claims he was on a rendition flight through Diego Garcia, has slammed the\u00a0Foreign Office\u2019s excuse for losing\u00a0rendition flight records, labelling it a cover-up. 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