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22 Dec 2009, 10:26 am
[JURIST] The Lithuanian Parliament [official website, in Lithuanian] National Security Committee reported Tuesday that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] established two secret prisons [JURIST news archive] for al Qaeda suspects in the Baltic country. [read post]
10 Dec 2005, 3:29 am
[JURIST] Germany's new foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier [BBC profile] Saturday denied allegations that German officials may have aided the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] in the December 2003 abduction of German citizen Khaled El-Masri [ACLU profile], who has filed a lawsuit charging the US with wrongful imprisonment [JURIST report; PDF text]. [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 2:58 am
[JURIST] The European Parliament voted 382-256 Wednesday to approve [press release] a report condemning member states for cooperating with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operating illegal secret prisons and extraordinary rendition flights [JURIST news archives] in Europe. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 9:24 am
[JURIST] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] transferred several high-profile prisoners to Guantanamo Bay to await trial in 2003, only to transfer them back into the CIA's network of secret prisons [JURIST news archives] so they would not be entitled to lawyers and access to US courts, the Associated Press reported [text] Friday. [read post]
3 May 2012, 9:28 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Wednesday filed a motion [text, PDF] in the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] military court seeking access to hear what methods the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] used when interrogating the five alleged 9/11 [JURIST backgrounder] conspirators. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 5:36 am
"Department of Justice still wants New York Times reporter's sources": At Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has an article that begins, "In a move that could unleash a major First Amendment battle, the Justice Department is asking a federal appeals court to force a New York Times reporter to testify about his confidential sources at the trial of a Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of leaking top-secret information. [read post]
13 Jun 2006, 1:35 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy website] on Monday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] to force the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] to turn over two documents relating to the CIA's overseas interrogation practices under the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [text; DOJ materials] request. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 9:41 am
[JURIST] Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] sent a letter [text, PDF] to President Barack Obama Friday urging him to suspend Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] investigation into allegations of prisoner abuse by CIA interrogators. [read post]
5 Nov 2006, 6:54 am
Says": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "The Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department have told a federal court that permitting lawyers access to high-level Qaeda suspects without tighter secrecy procedures could damage national security by revealing harsh 'alternative interrogation methods' used in secret C.I.A. prisons overseas. [read post]
17 Jul 2006, 2:39 am
[JURIST] The United States will not help Germany investigate the alleged abduction of Khaled el-Masri [JURIST news archive], a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] seized him in Macedonia in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive], the German Justice Ministry [official website, in German] said Sunday. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 9:52 am
[JURIST] The Council of Europe [official website] Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg [official profile] on Monday urged [press release] Lithuania, Poland and Romania to investigate the roles their governments played in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] program of "secret detention and torture" of terrorism suspects. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 4:52 am
"NYT reporter James Risen asks court to protect sources": At Politico.com, Josh Gerstein has a blog post that begins, "Lawyers for New York Times reporter James Risen asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to uphold a lower court's rulings that federal prosecutors should not be able to question him about most details of his confidential sources for a 2006 book that described a botched Central Intelligence Agency program to sabotage Iran's nuclear… [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 11:51 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Tuesday against two psychologists who devised the torture techniques used on three former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisoners. [read post]
3 Oct 2016, 2:09 pm
Two Tunisian men have come forward with claims of previously unreported accounts of torture at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website], according to a report [text] published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 8:14 am
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on counter terrorism and human rights [official website] Ben Emmerson on Tuesday called for the prosecution [press release] of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] and other government officials for the interrogation and torture of detainees. [read post]
10 May 2007, 3:21 am
Librarians' Internet Index describes the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Electronic Reading Room: This site provides "an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents. [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 12:57 pm
Human rights groups Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy websites] on Tuesday issued a joint letter [text] to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) calling for the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate claims that Central Intelligence Agency agents used torture against detainees held at Guantanamo Bay prison and elsewhere. [read post]
6 Dec 2013, 7:03 am
[JURIST] Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr [JURIST news archive], who was kidnapped in Milan as part of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] extraordinary rendition program [JURIST news archive], was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday by an Italian court after being convicted in absentia of terror charges. [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 10:54 am
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Thursday announced a settlement in a lawsuit against two psychologists who devised the torture techniques used on three former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisoners. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 4:09 am
[JURIST] Outgoing Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] director Michael Hayden [official profile] during a Thursday press conference defended the controversial interrogation techniques used to gather information in the "war on terror. [read post]
