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rg>, at 10:37:17 on Thu, 2 Sep 2004,
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>It could just as easily be that the prisoner had requested that these
>details were not passed onto his family - to spare them any heartache.
>Perhaps the "abuse" was sexual in nature, and he doesn't want his
>family to know. At the end of the day, I think that only the FCO know
>the whole story and they had to make a judgement call...
It seems to me that in those circumstances they could come up with a
better story than blaming the DPA. The truth "the prisoner asked that
the details of his captivity were not communicated to his family"
doesn't breach the confidentiality at all.
--
Roland Perry
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