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23 Sep 2008, 4:59 pm
And yet she did not seem to have been gathering any information in the past 7+ years about the issues that make my candidate the obvious choice for me -- the occupation of Iraq; our use of waterboarding to gather intelligence; extraordinary rendition; detainee rights at Guantanamo (see Detainees' rights subverted at Guantánamo, their lawyers say; A federal judge asks for statements from two guards accused of threatening… [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 10:09 am
From an Irish perspective the issue of transit states' liabilities relating to extraordinary rendition has been particularly germane. [read post]
5 Sep 2008, 8:03 am
The prison was reportedly part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] program, under [read post]
30 Aug 2008, 12:07 pm
[JURIST] London's High Court Friday gave UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband [official profile] a week to defend his office's refusal [FCO press release] earlier this month to turn over documents relating to the alleged extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] and torture of Binyam Mohamed [Reprieve profile], the last British resident still detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
19 Aug 2008, 1:49 am
If Congress wants to say that extraordinary rendition is legal, it should have to say that expressly.Posted by Mike Dorf [read post]
16 Aug 2008, 6:15 am
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals announced yesterday it would convene at least 13 judges in December for another hearing for Arar, the Ottawa engineer who was tortured and jailed in a Syrian prison after being whisked out of JFK Airport in September 2002, under a U.S. practice known as "extraordinary rendition.'' A three-judge panel dismissed Arar's lawsuit in June, but the dissenting judge said the ruling gave the U.S. government license "to violate… [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 6:02 am
Show NotesTotal Running Time 35:44 1:06 Jacob Kaufman and Omar Ha-Redeye introduce themselves. 1:17 Jacob notices different opening music for this episode of Law is Cool, and Omar explains it's a sound clip from a performance by Rich Droste of the London War Resisters Support Group. 1:47 Jacob, who is seeing the film for the second time, discusses The Dark Knight. 2:14 Omar raises some of the criticisms of the film, such as its promotion of vigilantism. 2:17 Jacob raises an article by Spencer… [read post]
4 Aug 2008, 8:13 am
The claims, which undermine Foreign Office denials that the archipelago in the Indian Ocean has been used as a so-called ‘black site’ to facilitate extraordinary rendition, threaten to cause a diplomatic incident. [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 5:04 pm
Citing the state secrets privilege, a Fourth Circuit panel upheld the outright dismissal of the suit, finding that litigating the case would require disclosure of details about the government's "extraordinary rendition" program. [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 5:30 am
Bush has been citicized for the new practice of "extraordinary rendition" - the transfer of suspects to countries known for the systematic use of torture. [read post]
6 Jul 2008, 11:39 am
MPs accuse Washington of lying over rendition flightsMPs are to launch an investigation into US activities on Diego Garcia after accusing Washington of lying about extraordinary rendition flights from the British-controlled island in the Indian Ocean. [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]
2 Jul 2008, 2:00 am
"Court Dismisses Rendition Suit": The New York Times today conains an article that begins, "A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Syrian-born Canadian man who had accused the United States of violating the law and his civil rights after he was detained at Kennedy Airport and sent to Syria under what he claims was an act of 'extraordinary rendition.'" And today in The New York Sun, Joseph Goldstein reports that… [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 3:24 pm
Today, a federal Court of Appeals ruled against Center for Constitutional Rights client Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured and interrogated for a year under the extraordinary rendition program. [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]
6 Jun 2008, 4:41 am
[JURIST] The Department of Homeland Security's internal investigations department has reopened an investigation into the extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] of Canadian engineer Maher Arar [advocacy website; JURIST news archive], DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner [official profile] told a congressional subcommittee Thursday. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 1:13 am
“A complaint was made yesterday to the information commissioner about the government’s behaviour over the use of the British island of Diego Garcia for the rendition of US prisoners. [read post]
18 May 2008, 12:02 am
The trial of 26 Americans and several former top Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 extraordinary rendition (kidnapping and torture) of Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (aka Abu Omar) has finally opened in Milan. [read post]
16 May 2008, 3:50 am
Those charges were dismissed late last week: a report appears in The Am Law Daily.)PS: I don't think they were used on anyone else - although they are the same techniques that have been used by the CIA in extraordinary rendition proceedings and they have also been used at Kandahar and Bagram in Afghanistan. [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]
