Standard Orders Prohibiting Five Techniques
Baha Mousa Inquiry · The Report of the Baha Mousa Inquiry - Volume III · Issued 8 September 2011 · Addressed to: Ministry of Defence
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
Joint Doctrine Publication (JDP) 1-10 should include the requirement for standard orders to be issued for each operation prohibiting the use of the five techniques.
Baha Mousa Inquiry, The Report of the Baha Mousa Inquiry - Volume III · 8 Sep 2011 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- Joint Doctrine Publication 1-10 (Captured Persons) was first published on 1 October 2011, shortly after the Baha Mousa Inquiry report (8 September 2011), and has since been updated to a Fourth Edition published 28 September 2020, incorporating lessons from the Baha Mousa and Al-Sweady inquiries as well as Supreme Court judgments (JDP 1-10, Fourth Edition, Ministry of Defence, September 2020).
- The specific content of standard operational orders is contained within classified military documents not publicly available for independent verification.
Response — verbatim from government
●Ministry of Defence
Accepted. JDP 1-10 has been updated to require standard orders prohibiting the five techniques for each operation.
Ministry of Defence · 8 Sep 2011 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.
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