Jack Straw "approved torture"

On EU Observer yesterday:

A British former envoy to Uzbekistan has revealed that western secret services obtained intelligence secured under torture from foreign detainees...

"'There is a plenty of evidence about torture carried out in Uzbekistan and I know that foreign minister Jack Straw officially approved using the information obtained through torture,' Mr Murray said, citing a secret report from a meeting held on 3 March 2003.

"The German secret service was also cooperating very closely with its Uzbek counterpart, he added, while Britain and the US had taken a policy decision to obtain intelligence under torture in other countries as well."