Denmark says it uses info from torture
Denmark's prime minister said his country is against the use of torture but that information obtained by its use is a valuable resource.
"Denmark emphatically condemns the use of torture," Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a news conference Tuesday. "But all information about terror has to be used."
The Copenhagen Post said Danish officials are aware the Danish domestic intelligence agency PET uses information obtained through torture from other countries as evidence in its investigations.
"There are no regulations in the Danish courts precluding the police from preventing and solving crimes using information that may be found to have come from others’ use of torture," Justice Minister Lene Espersen told public broadcaster DR. "But it’s obvious that if the police have a suspicion the information was obtained through torture, they should be skeptical about its credibility."
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