UK government accused of 'scraping legal barrel' in Belhaj rendition case

Headline Title: UK government accused of 'scraping legal barrel' in Belhaj rendition case 21 July 2014 Ahead of a legal intervention by Amnesty International and others in the rendition case of the Libyan national Abdul-Hakim Belhaj, Amnesty International is warning that the UK government is “scraping the legal barrel” with its arguments in the case. The intervention comes in Abdul-Hakim Belhaj's Court of Appeal case - due to start this week - against senior British politicians and officials, including former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and…

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