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NJ.com: NewsFlash - UK panel faults gov't position on torture:

"LONDON (AP) — A House of Commons committee faulted Prime Minister Tony Blair's government Friday for not saying whether it uses information extracted through torture in other countries.

The Foreign Affairs panel also urged the government to make 'strong representations' to the United States about the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

British citizens who have been released from the Cuban base or who were detained in Afghanistan have alleged that they were tortured.

'We find it surprising and unsettling that the government has twice failed to answer our specific question on whether or not the U.K. receives or acts upon information extracted under torture by a third country,' the committee said in its annual report."