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From daily The Guardian in Britain:
Libya rendition victims demand disclosure of UK surveillance policy
The government’s refusal to reveal when lawyers’ and journalists’ communications can be intercepted is central to claim brought on behalf of Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sami al-Saadi
Owen Bowcott, legal affairs correspondent
Friday 17 October 2014 10.05 BST
Secret government policies which set out when lawyers’ or journalists’ phones and emails can be intercepted should be published, a court has been told.
In an open hearing of the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT), which examines complaints against the intelligence services and government use of surveillance, lawyers for two Libyan victims of rendition have called for the documents to be released.
The government’s refusal to reveal the policy papers has emerged as a key issue in the claim brought on behalf of Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sami al-Saadi who, along with members of their families, were kidnapped and sent to face punishment in Libya in 2004.
The case before the IPT alleges that the intelligence agencies or government spied on their communications with their lawyers, damaging their right to a fair trial in their claim for compensation for kidnap and torture.
Communication between lawyers and their clients are deemed to be “privileged” under longstanding rules. Similar protection applies to the communications between journalists and their sources and other protected groups.
In a hearing at the IPT, Dinah Rose QC, representing the Libyans, said: “We don’t understand why it’s being said that disclosure of policy will cause harm to national security. None of this information ought to be secret. Procedures for ensuring that privileged material is properly protected ought to be open to public scrutiny.”
The government has declined to disclose policies regulating the circumstances in which these communications are intercepted and any safeguards in place to avoid abuse. It says they are secret.
At Thursday evening’s hearing, lawyers for the government did not explain why the policies could not be released. Further preliminary hearings will be held before the case is tried in November. One issue is whether the tribunal has the power to order the government to disclose documents, a principle that could turn into a major confrontation between civil rights groups and the government.
The IPT complaint is one of a series of cases after revelations by the CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden about monitoring of the internet and telephone calls by Britain’s eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, through its Tempora programme.
Eight Libyans, members of the two families, say they were victims of rendition. They claim they were kidnapped by MI6 and US intelligence agencies, forcibly returned to Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and tortured. At that time, in 2004, when Gaddafi relinquished his nuclear weapons programme, intelligence relations between Tripoli, London and Washington were close.
A separate legal action between Belhaj and the UK government is due to be heard at the high court to resolve compensation for the kidnap and torture allegations. The human rights group Reprieve, which is supporting the claim, fears its ability to fight the case will be undermined because staff’s legal correspondence may be surreptitiously monitored.
Saadi, another Libyan dissident, and his family have settled their claim against the government for a payment of £2.2m. The Foreign Office did not, however, admit liability.
The “notice of complaint” by solicitors at Leigh Day on behalf of Reprieve and the Libyans lists the Security Service (MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, the home secretary and the foreign secretary as respondents. It calls for the case to be heard in open court. Most of the IPT’s hearings are in secret.
The claims states: “There is a strong likelihood that the respondents have intercepted and are intercepting the applicants’ legally privileged communications in respect of the [cases].”
Belhaj and Saadi were prominent military leaders of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group during the revolution, the document points out, and are, therefore, “likely to be of interest” to UK intelligence agencies.
Intelligence agencies ‘may have abused access to lawyer-client documents’. Lawyers for Abdel Hakim Belhaj claim MI5, MI6 and GCHQ may have intercepted legally privileged communications: here.
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Flash-back : Qui vous a dit quoi sur la Libye ?
INVESTIG’ACTION
ANDERS FOGH RASSMUSSEN (OTAN) : « Notre but est de protéger les populations et les zones civiles. L’OTAN appliquera tous les aspects de la résolution de l’ONU, ni plus, ni moins. » (27 mars 2011)
BERNARD KOUCHNER : « Sarkozy a été courageux en étant le premier à reconnaître le Conseil national de transition (CNT) libyen. C’est toujours comme ça, il y a des gens qui mettent en garde et puis il y a des gens qui avancent, il suffit de travailler un peu et d’être décidé. » (11 mars 2011)
BERNARD-HENRY LEVY : « C’est en tant que juif que j’ai participé à cette aventure politique en Libye, que j’ai contribué à définir des fronts militants, que j’ai contribué à élaborer pour mon pays et pour un autre pays une stratégie et des tactiques. J’ai porté en étendard ma fidélité à mon nom et ma fidélité au sionisme et à Israël. » (20 novembre 2011)
IGNACIO RAMONET (Monde Diplomatique) : « Les insurgés libyens méritent l’aide de tous les démocrates . Le plus surprenant, ce fut le silence des gouvernements progressistes d’Amérique latine. Ce prétexte commode du “complot américain (…) Une telle conception de la souveraineté – toujours dominante – a vu sa légitimité s’éroder depuis la fin de la guerre froide en 1989. » (avril 2011)
MICHEL COLLON :
« La tragédie libyenne ne fait que commencer. Ce pays va plonger en enfer comme l’Irak. Les seuls Libyens à se réjouir seront les businessmen. Si une guerre civile se déclenche entre ces courants, les Etats-Unis en profiteront pour diviser le pays. Pour empêcher de tels pays de reconquérir leur indépendance, la meilleure solution est de les plonger dans le chaos. » (extrait du Livre Libye, Otan et médiamensonges , 2011, page 171)
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