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An intelligence sharing regime between British and US security services was unlawful, a surveillance watchdog has ruled.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which deals with complaints against GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, found that intercepted communications were provided to Britain’s listening post GCHQ in breach of human rights laws.
However, during the proceedings leading up to the judgment, the government revealed details of the legal framework governing the bulk interception and intelligence sharing regime — and by doing so had now made it compliant with the European Convention on Human Rights, the IPT said.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right
The British government won’t confirm wide reports it has withheld intelligence sharing with the US over fears Trump’s attacks on boats near Venezuela are illegal, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
