Theresa May's "retreat into secrecy and blatant abuse of power" - TruePublica
By Craig Murray – Theresa May’s terrible Instincts.
In December 2002 I cooperated closely with the UN Special Rapporteur on
Torture, Theo van Boven, who was paying an inspection visit to
Uzbekistan. As I recorded in Murder in Samarkand “against the
protocols, the Uzbek authorities refused to let him enter the SNB
holding centre in Tashkent, the most notorious of all the torture
sites.” I upbraided the Uzbek Foreign Minister for this.
That kind of contempt of the UN is perhaps expected of dictatorships.
But consider this. The Immigration detention centre at Yarls Wood
became notorious for the sexual exploitation of female detainees by
staff, on a large scale. In April 2015 the UN Special Rapporteur on
Violence against Women, Rashida Manjoo, visited the UK. The government
denied her entry to Yarls Wood. In accordance with UN protocols, she
went anyway, and was blocked from entering– on the direct orders of Home Secretary Theresa May
