Former MI5 head: Torture is 'wrong and never justified'

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Former MI5 head: Torture is 'wrong and never justified'

Source: BBC News

The use of torture is "wrong and never justified", the former head of the security service MI5 has insisted.

Eliza Manningham-Buller said it should be "utterly rejected even when it may offer the prospect of saving lives".

Giving the second of her BBC Radio Reith lectures, she acknowledged recent disclosures about alleged British intelligence operations in Libya would "raise widespread concerns".

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Baroness Manningham-Buller's lectures examine the issues of terrorism and security on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14750998

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