News - Middle East: In an open letter to Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a rights group warns that the information based on which the government decided to suspend funds to the UN refuge agency, UNRWA, could have been obtained by use of torture at the hands of Israeli forces.

In late January, the United Kingdom and other major donor parties, such as the US and European Union, pulled their funding for the UN Palestinian refugee agency over claims that the UNRWA staffers were involved in Operation al-Aqsa Storm against Israel in October.
Human rights organization Freedom From Torture and Redress wrote to Sunak on Friday that the information “upon which the UK government acted, was obtained through torture.”
The group called on the prime minister to ensure that "the UK takes no receipt of, and makes no use of intelligence provided by Israel or other authorities where there is a real risk that it has been obtained by torture or other ill-treatment.”
They called on Sunak "to publicly repudiate reliance on intelligence material and/or 'confessions' obtained using torture".
"We urge you to urgently call for independent monitors and lawyers to have access to Palestinians in Israeli detention facilities.”