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27 Mar 2012, 9:38 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Tuesday asked EU member states to reconsider their involvement [press release] in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] program of forced transfer and secret detention. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 9:27 am
” And from an administration that has actively blocked attempts by victims of torture and extraordinary rendition to seek remedy in US courts. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 6:10 am
” The image is a rendition of Ramón Power y Giralt, a Puerto Rican statesman who was elected vice-president of the Cortes. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 12:22 pm
With all the deserved condemnation heaped on the Bush Administration for its expansion of Executive branch powers in the service of the War on Terror, its warrantless wiretapping and extraordinary rendition, it is striking how muted the criticism is of Obama. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 12:39 am
Licence to kill Also from the Guardian, an article discussing the civil proceedings being brought by the families of those of Libyan dissidents against Sir Mark Allen, the former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, accusing him of complicity in their extraordinary rendition, torture and inhuman and degrading treatment (proceedings against the government, MI6 and MI5 are to follow). [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 3:44 am
These matters are examined at the national, regional, and international levels.The book addresses a wide spectrum of issues, including analysis of key legal principles; emergency and executive measures; radicalization; governmental and institutional impunity; classification, administration and treatment of battlefield detainees; the use of lethal force ; forms of, and treatment in, detention;non-refoulement; diplomatic assurances; interrogation versus torture; extraordinary… [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 7:41 am
“extraordinary rendition” program. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 8:13 am
The Crown Prosecution Service and Scotland Yard released a joint statement indicating there would be an investigation into allegations of extraordinary rendition of suspects in Libya, while British officials also announced that the two UK officers accused of participating in these alleged actions wouldn’t face criminal charges. [read post]
2 Jan 2012, 11:50 am
Earlier Library Boy posts on that include:American Dialect Society Words of the Year 2005: Legal Expressions 'Patent Troll', 'Extraordinary Rendition' Make List (January 11, 2006): "A few other law-related terms scored highly in the 'most euphemistic' category (hmmmm, I wonder why): 'internal nutrition: force-feeding a prisoner against his or her will' and 'extraordinary rendition: the surrendering of a… [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:45 am
What accounts for this extraordinary growth? [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 12:14 pm
Legal action charity Reprieve, in cooperation with the human rights organization Access Info Europe [advocacy websites], released their interim findings [report; press release] in a report documenting right of access requests made in 28 countries to investigate flights associated with "extraordinary rendition"—the covert transfer of prisoners... [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 11:19 am
All of which is a long way to a short point: the extraordinary, unmatchable work of Christopher Logue, the British poet who produced what is to my mind (and I am hardly alone) they most convincing rendition of the Iliad in English. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 6:38 am
The report condemned the CIA’s use of Romania as a location for extraordinary renditions of “terror suspects,” including British nationals such as Binyam Mohammed. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 7:29 am
As Davidson says, while we may not have committed torture ourselves of the prisoners we transferred to Syria via extraordinary rendition and we may not torture children, "we have used torture, and as we have learned in the Republican debates and on the floor of Congress, there is in no way a consensus that this is even a source of mild embarrassment. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 9:38 pm
ArticlesHarmen van der Wilt, Universal Jurisdiction under Attack: An Assessment of African Misgivings towards International Criminal Justice as Administered by Western StatesChacha Bhoke Murungu, Towards a Criminal Chamber in the African Court of Justice and Human RightsRaphaël van Steenberghe, The Obligation to Extradite or Prosecute: Clarifying its NatureNational Prosecution of International Crimes: Cases and LegislationPeter Wilkitzki, German Government Not Obliged to Seek Extradition of CIA… [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 10:23 am
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15 Nov 2011, 9:23 am
We would stop filing lawsuits on behalf of victims of the CIA’s programs of extraordinary rendition and abusive interrogation. [read post]
13 Nov 2011, 6:18 pm
Second, and relatedly — extraordinary rendition? [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 1:51 am
Alka Pradhan (The Constitution Project) has posted an ASIL Insight on Outside the United States, Extraordinary Rendition on Trial. [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 8:08 am
Now, there is clearly a cause and effect between Bush's Iraq invasion and thousands of military and civilian deaths, a revitalized Taliban in Afghanistan, the spreading of Al Qaeda throughout the region, the strengthening of Iran, the tanking of the U.S. economy, and our disgraceful embrace of torture, extraordinary rendition, and other human rights violations. [read post]
