BAHA-6 Accepted

Five Techniques Terminology

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

In the interests of clarity for all, the five techniques should be referred to as being banned or prohibited rather than proscribed.

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:

Government response: Accepted. No public evidence of delivery has been found.

Sources

Government response (2011-09-08): Accepted Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/publication-of-the-baha-mousa-inquiry-report Text: Accepted.
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Response — verbatim from government

Ministry of Defence

Accepted.

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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