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By Hannah K. Strange
"Britain's use of controversial memoranda of understanding to enable deportations of terror suspects to countries with poor human rights records is in fact 'an advancement of human rights,' Home Secretary Charles Clarke insisted. Giving testimony before the International Commission of Jurists' Eminent Jurists Panel in London, he argued that by securing guarantees from such countries that they would not torture or otherwise mistreat returned individuals, Britain was in fact promoting a greater respect for human rights worldwide. "
