LONDON, March 12: A human rights group and a law firm took legal action on Monday against the British government, accusing it of passing on intelligence to help deadly US covert drone attacks in Pakistan and violating international law.

The challenge is the latest in a string of lawsuits against UK spy agencies for sharing intelligence with foreign governments in ways that may have put victims in lethal danger.

The London-based charity Reprieve and the law firm Leigh Day & Co. filed papers to the High Court claiming that civilian staff at Britain’s electronic listening agency, GCHQ, could be “secondary parties to murder” for providing “locational intelligence” to the CIA in directing its drone attack programme.—AP