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16 May 2011, 10:24 am by Lyle Denniston
., et al. (10-778) — the latest appeal seeking to challenge the closing down of a lawsuit, because the government claims a “state secrets” privilege, seeking to hold someone liable for the Central Intelligence Agency’s once-secret program of “extraordinary rendition. [read post]
16 May 2011, 8:56 am by Kali Borkoski
 a case brought by the ACLU on behalf of several victims of extraordinary rendition. [read post]
10 May 2011, 6:49 am by Jon Tracy
"  The case would also be only the second pending over the policy of extraordinary rendition at the European court. [read post]
3 May 2011, 1:35 am by Melina Padron
Finally, the Panopticon blog reports on an appeal by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition to the Upper Tribunal succeeded in achieving the disclosure of, or significantly more information from the Ministry of Defence on the following: memoranda of understanding between the UK and the governments of Iraq, Afghanistan and the USA regarding the treatment of prisoners detained in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan; a copy of the Detentions Practices… [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 11:31 am by Michael Rinne
Where a contract is within the statute of frauds, the mere rendition of services is not usually adequate part performance of a verbal agreement to relieve the contract from the operation of the statute of frauds. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 10:55 pm by Catriona Murdoch
There was no explicit mention of extraordinary rendition and what If any role the UK has had in that in the last year. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 11:59 am by JB
These end runs included public private cooperation in surveillance and exchange of information, expansion of the state secrets doctrine, expansion of administrative warrants and national security letters, a system of preventive detention, expanded use of military prisons, extraordinary rendition to other countries, and aggressive interrogation techniques outside of those countenanced by the traditional laws of war.The reasons for the creation of the national surveillance state were… [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 8:33 am
It is the first case ever to come before the African Commission regarding the involvement of an African state in the U.S. extraordinary rendition and secret detention program. [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. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 10:03 am by Victoria Pynchon
  George Bush - a man who waged an unrelenting campaign against the Rule of Law in America and authorized the torture of detainees at Guantanamo and "dark sites" in foreign countries through extraordinary rendition - should not be invited to speak to an organization whose highest value is the survival, indeed the thriving vitality, of the Rule of Law in America. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 10:15 am by Ryan Singel
s most generally recognized in the rest of the world as the coordinator of the extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 12:48 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
However, like the ACLU's case against the CIA on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, another victim of the extraordinary rendition program, Arar's case was dismissed by lower courts in the United States without any consideration of his claims of U.S. [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 11:11 am by Geoffrey Mock
According to journalist Stephen Grey, Suleiman was the Egyptian conduit for the US extraordinary rendition flights closely linked to torture. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 12:13 pm by Kim Zetter
” The highly charged reference is to the “extraordinary renditions” that the Central Intelligence Agency performed to illegally nab suspected terrorists and send them to countries overseas where they could be tortured in secret prisons. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 5:32 am by admin
If this doesn’t work, some individuals are subjected to extraordinary rendition where less harsh interrogation and secret transporting of the convicts from one place to another is made. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 1:44 pm by brian
via www.aclu.org For further analysis of extraordinary rendition visit SSRN.com and download DiMento, Joseph F. and Geis, Gilbert, Extraordinary Rendition: Legal and Moral Considerations. [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 12:23 pm by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
” Apologists for extraordinary rendition—that is, apologists for torture by proxy—argue that our extraordinary enemy justifies extraordinary measures. [read post]
11 Dec 2010, 9:18 am
[JURIST] A German administrative court dismissed [press release, in German] a lawsuit filed by Khaled El-Masri [JURIST news archive] seeking the arrest and extradition of 13 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] agents whom El-Masri claims kidnapped and illegally detained him in 2003 as part of the Bush administration's extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] program, according to a ruling made public Friday. [read post]