200 Rendition flights?

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Channel 4 News has learnt that three US-registered planes suspected of transporting terrorist detainees to torture camps have gone through UK airspace around 200 times in the last five years.

The American administration admits it transports detainees around the world, but human rights groups claim the practice known as "extraordinary rendition" is used to send prisoners to countries where they can be tortured.

The government here has always denied that UK airspace has been used for torture flights, but opposition MPs are now demanding that they find out more about what these aircraft have been doing.

See also:
24 Jan 2006: Americans flew detainees abroad knowing they could be tortured - and European governments probably knew about it too - says European human rights investigation into CIA rendition (More4 News)
20 Jan 2006: Straw in rendition flight denial
19 Jan 2006: British airports may have been used in the transportation of terror suspects more often than the government has admitted.
13 Dec 2006: The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, was put on the defensive today over whether CIA flights carrying prisoners stopped at British airports. (More4 News)

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