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Annual Report: United Kingdom 2010
Head of state Queen Elizabeth II Head of government Gordon Brown Death penalty abolitionist for all crimes Population 61.6 million Life expectancy 79.3 years Under-5 mortality (m/f) 6/6 per 1,000 Reports implicating the UK in grave violations of human rights of people held overseas continued to emerge. Calls for independent investigations into the UK's role in these violations went unheeded. The government's attempts to return people to countries known to practise torture on the basis of "diplomatic assurances" (unenforceable promises from the countries where these individuals were to be returned) continued. The European Court of Human Rights found that, by…
March 19, 2011