My hon. Friend is making points with which I absolutely concur. The prohibition on torture is absolute. I have witnessed first hand the training given to our armed forces personnel on the issues that he has described. Does he share my concern, which was expressed in Committee, that not excluding torture in the way that the Government could have done, and have done on sexual offences, puts our armed forces personnel at bigger risk of being taken to places such as the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which nobody wants to happen?
Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Stephen Doughty
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 3 November 2020.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill.
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