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7 May 2014, 4:00 am by Alex Neve
Two weeks later he was unlawfully sent off to Syria in the middle of the night; a victim of extraordinary rendition. [read post]
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]
21 Oct 2011, 5:15 am
The request for indictment was based upon Canada’s obligations under the Convention Against Torture, on Canadian Criminal Code § 269.1, which addresses criminal liability for torture, and on Canadian Supreme Court precedent condemning the acts of torture that took place at Bagram Air Base, secret “black sites,” through extraordinary renditions, and at Guantánamo against detainees in U.S. custody. [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]
17 Mar 2007, 1:45 pm
It seems possible that, like the investigations in Italy and Germany into extraordinary rendition, an investigation into post-2001 disappearances in Pakistan could reveal information that the U.S. government would prefer the public not to know. [read post]
10 May 2010, 2:36 pm
Alvarez in "Torturing the Law" and Leila Nadya Sadat in "Ghost Prisoners and Black Sites: Extraordinary Rendition Under International Law," at pages 175 and 309, respectively, of 37 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (2006).? [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 4:39 am by Rosalind English
Yunus Rahmatullah was captured by British forces in Iraq in 2004 and later taken to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan having been the subject of “extraordinary rendition”. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 1:06 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Ashcroft, 585 F.3d 559 (2d Cir. 2009) (en banc ) (“extraordinary rendition” case ). [read post]
3 Nov 2008, 1:45 pm
” ...The ACLU calls on the next president to close Guantánamo, ban torture and end extraordinary rendition. [read post]
11 Dec 2016, 3:17 am by SHG
Bizarrely, they believe so strongly that they are willing to accept at face value the word of the CIA, the nice folks who brought your torture and extraordinary rendition, not to mention the certainty of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, without the slightest cringe of cognitive dissonance when it informed America that the Russians hacked the election in Trump’s favor. [read post]
7 May 2009, 12:20 pm
  That such a young man would have produced in his tragically shortened career such an extraordinary body of symphonic work as truly amazing. [read post]
17 Mar 2007, 1:45 pm
It seems possible that, like the investigations in Italy and Germany into extraordinary rendition, an investigation into post-2001 disappearances in Pakistan could reveal information that the U.S. government would prefer the public not to know. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 4:08 pm by Jeff Kern and Christopher Bosch
Among other things, he defended the extraordinary rendition of a detainee, lawsuits seeking disclosure of photographs of detainee abuses, and the issuance of a signing statement by President George W. [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]
9 Sep 2011, 12:48 pm by Ben Wizner, National Security Project
When five other victims of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, also represented by the ACLU, sought judicial redress against a government contractor that had knowingly profited from arranging their torture flights, the court told them, in effect, to look elsewhere: "Our holding today is not intended to foreclose — or to prejudge — possible nonjudicial relief, should it be warranted for any of the plaintiffs. [read post]
30 May 2007, 8:46 am
He has been a carpenter and car salesman, but since late December 2003 has been caught up in an international diplomatic and legal controversy over the Central Intelligence Agency's "extraordinary rendition" program, and the part he involuntarily played in that activity. [read post]
18 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
” Findings #9 through #11 deal with extraordinary rendition, and findings #12 through #16 discuss the activities of medical professionals in the treatment of detainees, calling for the recognition of basic ethical standards by doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists involved in these procedures. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 9:18 am
The suit results from human rights violations arising out of the Bush policy of "extraordinary rendition" and torture. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 2:02 pm by Mark Walsh
Back to the sacred place where her extraordinary life began. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 7:53 am
When Obama announced he was disclosing those memos, he went out of his way to ensure the CIA and others that he would continue to, as he had done in the past, defend the secrecy powers of the government in court, and try and keep programs like this one, the rendition program, concealed from judicial review. [read post]