Publication

This report examines the moral, practical and legal implications for the sharing and use of information by executive agencies which has allegedly been extracted under torture or other forms of ill-treatment. It also examines to what extent such practices violate international law and discusses standards on the use of information gained through torture in the UK and Canada. The authors argue that there is an absence of clearly agreed principles on the executive use of such information and that the international community should therefore develop guidelines that deal with it to enable states to avoid complicit liability for acts of torture committed overseas.