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Andy Gregory and Amy-Clare Martin

UN torture tsar calls on Starmer to review sentences of IPP prisoners trapped indefinitely behind bars

Jacqueline Ali

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The UN special rapporteur on torture has urged Sir Keir Starmer to review the cases of thousands of people trapped in prison indefinitely under Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences.

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