This is the last article you can read this month
You can read more article this month
You can read more articles this month
Sorry your limit is up for this month
Reset on:
Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here
THE Supreme Court will hear a landmark challenge next month to government attempts to cover up a top MI6 officer’s role in renditions to Libya .
Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar were kidnapped, rendered to Libya and tortured by the CIA with the knowledge and assistance of MI6 in 2004.
The couple are challenging the Director of Public Prosecutions decision not to charge MI6 former counterterrorism chief Sir Mark Allen over his involvement in their ordeal.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has applied to hold proceedings in secret under draconian powers in the Justice & Security Act 2013, meaning Mr Belhaj and Ms Boudchar, their lawyers, journalists and the public cannot attend.
But, as these powers were only intended for use in non-criminal proceedings, the Supreme Court will be asked to rule they cannot be used in an action relating to potential prosecution of an MI6 officer.
