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30 Jan 2011, 7:07 am
Omar Suleiman and the Rendition to Torture Program by Stephen Soldz, Opednews.com.
"When Suleiman was first announced, Aljazeera commentators were describing him as a "distinguished" and "respected " man. It turns out, however, that he is distinguished for, among other things, his central role in Egyptian torture and in the US rendition to torture program. Further, he is "respected" by US officials for his cooperation with their torture plans, among other initiatives."
See also the New Yorker,… [read post]
25 Sep 2010, 6:08 am
When one door shuts, we have to look for other openings. That’s what activists are doing in the aftermath of the Sept. 8 federal court decision blocking a lawsuit from people who suffered torture through U.S. extraordinary renditions from proceeding.
Egyptian-born Binyam Mohamed spent just under seven years in custody, four of which at Guantanamo Bay. Mohamed has always insisted that the evidence against him was obtained through torture. The US dropped all charges against him in… [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 8:32 am
We're delighted to welcome Elizabeth Ashamu (right), who provides today's guest post below on her work seeking justice for victims of extraordinary rendition in the African human rights system. A third-year law student at NYU School of Law, Elizabeth is a Root-Tilden-Kern and Institute for International Law and Justice scholar. Her academic and professional work has focused on human rights in Africa. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in African Studies from Yale University. Before law… [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 11:09 am
Democracy Now September 7, 2011. " Human Rights Watch has uncovered hundreds of letters in the Libyan foreign ministry proving the Gaddafi government directly aided the extraordinary rendition program carried out by the CIA and the MI6 in Britain after the 9/11 attacks. The documents expose how the CIA rendered suspects to Libyan authorities knowing they would be tortured. One of the most prominent suspects rendered to Libya was an Islamic militant named Abdelhakim Belhaj, who is now the military… [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 11:11 am
N227SV plane used in rendition flights.
News that after five days of protests Omar Suleiman has been named vice president of Egypt is a reminder that the abuses that drove the people into the streets there had too much assistance from America, including right here in my home of North Carolina.
According to journalist Stephen Grey, Suleiman was the Egyptian conduit for the US extraordinary rendition flights closely linked to torture. Many of those flights took off from an airport… [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 5:20 pm
Earlier today an Italian court convicted in absentia twenty-two CIA officers and a colonel in the US Air Force of charges relating to the February 2003 kidnapping of Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr aka Abu Omar.
Abu Omar was a victim of the extraordinary rendition program established by the Clinton administration and greatly expanded under President George W. Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
He was snatched off the street in Milan and flown secretly to Cairo where… [read post]
12 Sep 2010, 5:10 am
Extraordinary rendition did not start on 11 September 2001; rather the practice of transferring individuals across borders without any due process was long a part of US policy although it usually consisted of ‘rendition to trial’ (such as in the infamous case of Adolf Eichman). It was miniscule in scale, however, compared to the extraordinary rendition programme that has developed in the ‘War on Terrorism’. In this post I want to reflect on two parts of the extraordinary… [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 9:49 am
Update: Italian Court increases sentences imposed. AFP December 16, 2010. "An Italian court upped the sentences for 23 CIA agents convicted in absentia of abducting an Egyptian imam in one of the biggest cases against the US "extraordinary rendition" programme. The 23 CIA agents, originally sentenced in November 2009 to five to eight years in prison, had their sentences increased to seven to nine years on appeal in what one of the defence lawyers described as a "shocking blow" for the US. They… [read post]
30 Sep 2011, 6:58 am
There are allegations of renditions between Lithuania and other European countries © Amnesty International
On Thursday Amnesty International launched a new report, Unlock the Truth, on the Lithuanian government’s abortive investigation of CIA ‘black sites’ that operated on their soil.
In December 2009 Lithuania became the first, and so far only, European state to publicly acknowledge that it had allowed the CIA to operate secret prisons on its territory. In January 2010 the… [read post]
3 Mar 2009, 7:28 pm
The Obama Administration has already taken several laudable steps to separate itself from illegal policies and practices of its predecessor, and I applaud them for it. I’m glad Attorney General Holder released some of the shocking legal memoranda prepared by the Bush Office of Legal Counsel, which authorized blatantly unlawful and unconstitutional acts by the executive branch. But I choked a bit on Mr. Holder’s statement that “Americans deserve a government that operates… [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 10:42 am
By Steve Hendricks
In 2003 the police of Milan were closing in on a network of Islamic terrorists that recruited suicide bombers—until the radical imam at the heart of their investigation, Abu Omar, inexplicably disappeared. He was, it would turn out, snatched off the street by the CIA, roughed up, and eventually flown to Egypt, where he was savagely tortured. The full story is told in my new book, A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial, published yesterday by W. W. Norton.
I… [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 1:30 pm
British resident Binyam Mohamed is among five plaintiffs who claim CIA torture.
The Supreme Court is being asked to review a lawsuit a lower court had dismissed against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they were allegedly tortured.
The appeal to the high court concerns a September decision by the San Francisco–based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which cited the Obama administration’s evocation of the state-secrets privilege… [read post]
14 Jul 2011, 7:00 am
Following hard on the heels of the revelation that the Obama administration had held Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame in secret detention on a US naval vessel patrolling off the coast of Somalia for over two months, comes a startling new claim from The Nation magazine that the Obama administration is back in the extraordinary rendition business.
Writing in the latest edition of The Nation, journalist Jeremy Scahill alleges that since early 2009 the United States has maintained a secret… [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 3:53 pm
The Ninth Circuit en banc upheld the decision to dismiss Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan.
In Jeppesen, Binyam Mohamed and four other plaintiffs sued Jeppesen, a CIA contractor for their seizure in foreign countries and transportation to other countries where they were tortured and interrogated as part of the government’s extraordinary rendition program. In this manner the government avoided the protections provided defendants and detainees accused of terrorist related crimes.
After the plaintiffs… [read post]
16 May 2012, 11:41 am
At 9.15 am Strasbourg time today, the Grand Chamber of the European
Court of Human Rights will hear a complaint relating to the extraordinary
renditions programme for the first time. In El
Masri v Macedonia the complainant, Khalid El Masri (left)—a Lebanese national but German resident—will
claim that Macedonia’s refusal to instigate a full and proper investigation of
his rendition, together with the state’s direct involvement in the rendition
itself, constitute a breach of the Convention.… [read post]
27 Feb 2010, 12:58 pm
The second issue of Prism Magazine is now available online. The not-for-profit journal launched last month by Maher Arar describes itself as a “security practices monitor”. The journal has an impressive list of contributors including: David Cole (Georgetown University); Alex Neve (Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada); Jeff Sallot (a former Globe and Mail bureau chief and professor at Carleton University School of Journalism); Paul Cavalluzzo (a prominent Canadian Constitutional… [read post]
12 May 2010, 6:28 pm
The Obama Administration filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to reject a petition to hear Maher Arar's case seeking damages for alleged extraordinary rendition and torture. Thanks to Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog for the link to the brief. We... [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 10:28 am
by Jeremy Leaming
Federal courts have avoided legal challenges against President George W. Bush’s construction of counterterrorism policies that included extraordinary rendition where terrorism suspects were secretly shipped to countries well-known for employing torture. The Bush and Obama administrations urged the federal courts to dismiss legal challenges to extraordinary rendition and secret detention sites arguing that they would expose “state secrets.”
But an exhaustive report… [read post]
15 Dec 2012, 3:58 am
On 13 December 2012, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in El-Masri v. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Fiona de Londras has set out the background to the case in her post here.
The decision has already been praised by NGOs and some international organisations. Jean-Claude Mignon (President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) declared: ”This judgment can be called historic: it is the first condemnation, by an… [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 8:33 am
(Many thanks to IntLawGrrls for inviting me to contribute this guest post) On the night of December 26, 2003, Mohamed al-Asad (right) was apprehended at his home in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, blindfolded and driven away. (photo credit) Early the next morning, he was placed into a small plane and expelled to Djibouti-a country entirely unfamiliar to him. There, he was held in a secret detention facility, subjected to torture and inhuman treatment and interrogated by an American agent. Two weeks later,… [read post]