The intelligence services have been “routinely spying on the confidential communication between lawyers and clients”, according to Amnesty UK’s legal advisor, Rachel Logan, who gave evidence at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) on Thursday (06/11/2014) in a case brought against the government by Libyans Abdel-Hakim Belhaj and Sami Al Saadi and Amnesty International.

The case, which seeks justice for Mr Balhaj and Mr Saadi who were abducted and sent back to Libya to be tortured by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in a joint MI6-CIA operation, casts light on the wider misa...