Binyam Mohamed

Part of Business of the House – in the House of Commons at 12:24 pm on 5 February 2009.

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Photo of Andrew Tyrie Andrew Tyrie Conservative, Chichester 12:24, 5 February 2009

There are several paragraphs in the judgment that are extremely important for all of us to bear in mind, particularly for the Foreign Secretary. It states that it is

"difficult to conceive that a democratically elected and accountable government could possibly have any rational objection to placing" the appropriate information

"into the public domain...we did not consider that a democracy governed by the rule of law would expect a court in another democracy to suppress...evidence" of

"allegations of torture...politically embarrassing though it might be."

Will he therefore act on the suggestion of my right hon. Friend the shadow Foreign Secretary and ask for a specific exception to be made in this case from the US Administration?