Pressure mounts on UK over CIA’s ‘black site’ jail

A human rights group is urging Britain’s Foreign office to “come clean” over claims that a British-administered island in the Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia, was used as a secret “black site” detention center by the CIA.

According to Press TV, Cori Crider, strategic director at Reprieve, a legal action charity group, in a letter to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said, “We need to know immediately whether ministers misled parliament over CIA torture on British soil.”

Crider added, “If the CIA operated a black site on Diego Garcia, then a string of official statements, from both this and the last government, were totally false.”

The letter followed a report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee that Britain had allowed the US to run a “black site” prison on Diego Garcia to secretly hold suspects without accountability.

According to the US officials familiar with the Senate report, the Diego Garcia prison held some “high-value” detainees and was operated with the “full cooperation” of the British government.