[punky]

I think its understandable that the government has taken the pragmatic approach and paid them to go away instead of trying to fight it

What does pee me off though is that the world knows we're a stupidly soft touch and we're foolish enough to let them exploit it. Along the chain of events there are countries, if the allegations are proven, that are far more culpable than us. You have the likes of the US, Pakistan and other Arabic/North African countries doing the torturing and countries like Poland offering logistics. I don't envisage anyone suing them (presumably because they'd tell everyone to sod off). The allegations against us are relatively trivial compared to those. Also the alleged victims' relationship with us is, at times, very tenuous.

It logically follows that now we'll have most of Hormone suing us.

I did speculate at the time why someone would want to live and seek asylum in a country complicit in their torture but I think now we know.