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26 Apr 2009, 11:36 am
The disclosure undermined a flimsy claim of state secrets -- first made by the Bush administration and still being pressed by the Obama Justice Department -- to deny a day in court to five victims of the extraordinary rendition program, under which foreigners were abducted and sent to be tortured in other countries. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 4:30 pm
Here is the abstract to the article: "The arguments of the Bush administration when it comes to torture, prisoner-of-war status and extraordinary rendition have been met with outrage by the international community, constitutional scholars and human-rights organizations like Amnesty International, which has referred to Guantánamo Bay as the 'gulag of our times.' But the polarization of these two camps obscures the broad middle ground that… [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 10:44 am
Excellent choices include: Restore Habeas Corpus Stop Illegal Spying Ban Torture, Really In addition, the Times says, he must close secret prisons, account for the ghost prisoners, ban extraordinary rendition, tighten the definition of enemy combatant, fairly screen prisoners, ban secret and tainted evidence, better define "classified evidence" and respect the right to counsel. [read post]
23 Jun 2008, 12:02 am
Contents include:Carlos Jimenéz Piernas & Millán Requena Casanova, Spain's Part in the 1906 Algeciras Conference: Internationalisation of the Moroccan Question and the Interests of SpainElena del Mar GarcÃÂa Rico, International Cooperation in Criminal Matters between Spain and Latin AmericaFernando Lozano Contreras, Convicts in Air: Implementation by the CIA of the extraordinary rendition… [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 9:16 am
The ACLU filed the lawsuit on his behalf and has this webpage about extraordinary rendition. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 3:41 pm
Bush and Bill Clinton, and he could well be forced to accept a central feature of their anti-terrorist methods: extraordinary rendition. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 5:38 pm
Jeppeson Dataplan amended opinion (the extraordinary rendition case) was not reported via the Cases of Interest feed (isn't the rendition case considered a case of interest?). [read post]
4 Oct 2006, 9:29 am
Scheinin, obviously concerned about extraordinary rendition and the recent acknowledgement that the US has operated secret prisons across the world, argues that that particular provision does not "spell out that it should apply only to legal extradition of a suspect," saying that he "see[s] that it could be used for legitimizing the process of extraordinary rendition. [read post]
10 Dec 2008, 1:30 pm
And "The AmLaw Daily" blog has a post titled "Second Circuit Hears Argument in Extraordinary Rendition Case. [read post]
10 May 2011, 6:49 am
" The case would also be only the second pending over the policy of extraordinary rendition at the European court. [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 8:00 am
In past cases involving the CIA’s former “extraordinary rendition” and torture program, the Bush and Obama administrations stepped in to shut down the lawsuits before they even got underway. [read post]
29 Jan 2011, 11:11 am
According to journalist Stephen Grey, Suleiman was the Egyptian conduit for the US extraordinary rendition flights closely linked to torture. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 2:14 pm
Just remember this when you read these so called "journalists" - John Brennan was part of the CIA when Maher Arar was rendered to Syria for torturing and, TO THIS DAY, STILL DEFENDS extraordinary rendition and torture. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 9:03 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for Canadian citizen Maher Arar [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] argued before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that Arar should be allowed to revive his lawsuit against senior officials in the US government. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 7:30 am
[JURIST] Germany issued arrest warrants for 13 people allegedly involved with the CIA kidnapping of German citizen Khaled el-Masri [JURIST news archive], German Prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld said Wednesday. [read post]
24 Jul 2006, 9:39 am
[JURIST] Jordan [JURIST news archive] is a "central hub in a global complex of secret detention centers" allegedly operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] and foreign intelligence agencies, according to an Amnesty International [advocacy website] report [text; press release] written by Malcolm Smart, the director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa unit. [read post]
17 Apr 2008, 9:43 pm
The European community view of the American extraordinary rendition program can be found in the Council of Europe's Report on Extraordinary Rendition. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 12:38 pm
So we've got news that Obama will continue with the extraordinary renditions policy of the Bush administration (sans the 'torture'; also people need to get their terminology straight: 'rendition' or 'ordinary rendition' is taken to refer to transfers regulated by law - e.g. extradition; extraordinary rendition is any extra-judicial transfer and so as such doesn't necessarily involve torture). [read post]
9 Feb 2009, 4:13 pm
" The following can be attributed to Ben Wizner, a staff attorney with the ACLU, who argued the case for the plaintiffs: "We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the Justice Department has chosen to continue the Bush administration's practice of dodging judicial scrutiny of extraordinary rendition and torture. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 3:27 pm
He served as research director for the commission of inquiry into the 1985 terrorist bombing of Air India Flight 182 and on the research advisory committee of the commission of inquiry into the extraordinary rendition to Maher Arar to Syria. [read post]
