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22 Jun 2006, 6:04 am
[JURIST] No evidence has surfaced to disprove the extraordinary rendition allegations [statement] of the German man who sued the US Central Intelligence Agency, a German prosecutor familiar with the evidence collected by the German government in the case said Thursday. [read post]
12 Jun 2006, 5:59 am
[JURIST] Spain's National Court said Monday it would investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] used an airport on the island of Mallorca in its alleged "spider's web" of extraordinary rendition flights to transport terror suspects. [read post]
9 Jun 2006, 5:49 am
Club Mediterranée, available here; see also, again, Julian Ku at Opinio Juris).Similarly, a law suit by a German citizen who claimed to have been subjected to the programme of ‘extraordinary rendition’ allegedly pursued by the US administration (i.e., to have been kidnapped and removed for interrogation) was thrown out by a US District Court because it would otherwise have led to a disclosure of state secrets (El-Masri v. [read post]
19 May 2006, 1:44 am
The report also urged the US to end the practice of extraordinary rendition [ [read post]
18 May 2006, 12:18 pm
[JURIST] A federal judge Thursday dismissed [order, PDF] a highly-publicized lawsuit [materials] brought by the ACLU against CIA Director George Tenet and other agency officials and employees on behalf of Khalid El-Masri [JURIST news archive], a German national who alleges [el-Masri statement] that he was kidnapped in Macedonia in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition [JURIST news [read post]
17 May 2006, 7:08 am
[JURIST] Members of a European Parliament [official website] delegation just back from a visit to the US [JURIST report] told reporters in Strasbourg Wednesday that CIA [official website] officials had confirmed to them "that between 30 and 50 people have been transported by extraordinary rendition", but had indicated it was "not possible to organize extraordinary rendition such as this without [read post]
10 May 2006, 5:35 am
[JURIST] The lawyer for Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia profile], the Egyptian cleric who CIA operatives allegedly kidnapped and moved out of Italy [JURIST news archive] to Egypt in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive], has claimed that Nasr was physically beaten while in US custody. [read post]
26 Apr 2006, 2:12 pm
[JURIST] The US Central Intelligence Agency [official website] has used extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] to kidnap terror suspects in Europe and transfer them to countries known to use torture and has operated over 1,000 secret flights in European territory, according to an interim report drafted by Italian MEP Giovanni Claudio Fava [official website] and released Wednesday. [read post]
12 Apr 2006, 11:52 am
[JURIST] Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli [official profile] said Wednesday that the Italian government would not validate Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro's request to extradite from the United States 22 CIA agents allegedly responsible for the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] of Egyptian cleric Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia profile]. [read post]
24 Feb 2006, 1:10 pm
[JURIST] A series of internal Canadian government memos newly declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act [text] has increased speculation that the US Central Intelligence Agency [JURIST news archive] has flown terror suspects through Canada as part of an extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] program transferring them to foreign prisons. [read post]
23 Feb 2006, 5:31 pm
[JURIST] A Human Rights Watch expert Thursday told members of a European Parliament [official website] committee formed to investigate allegations that the US has transferred prisoners through Europe on secret extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] flights that the United States has gone to great lengths to cover up evidence of the flights and urged the EU lawmakers to encourage other [read post]
17 Feb 2006, 4:07 am
Trager has granted the US Justice Department's request for dismissal [memorandum, PDF; JURIST report] of a civil rights lawsuit filed by Maher Arar [advocacy website, CBC timeline], in what is believed to be the first suit filed challenging US extraordinary rendition [CBS report; JURIST news archive] practices. [read post]
9 Feb 2006, 11:55 am
[JURIST] A senior Italian judicial source who asked not to be named has said that the 22 CIA agents accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia profile] in Milan and transporting him out of the country in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition may be tried in absentia in proceedings that could begin within a month. [read post]
19 Jan 2006, 4:21 am
[JURIST] The European Parliament [official website] announced on Wednesday that it would investigate claims [press release] that the CIA has been illegally detaining and torturing terrorism suspects in European countries or using European air bases as transit points to send suspects to other countries to be tortured, a process called extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
19 Jan 2006, 12:24 am
[JURIST] A leaked UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office [official website] memo says that while undertaking or cooperating with extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] of terror suspects to countries where they could face a real risk of torture could never be legal under UK law, the British government could not say that it had received no requests for such renditions and would prefer to focus [read post]
6 Dec 2005, 7:33 am
The Bush Administration has been increasingly questioned about the practice, known as extraordinary rendition [Wikipedia backgrounder], [read post]
6 Dec 2005, 4:19 am
The complaint alleges that Masri was a victim of the CIA's extraordinary rendition [ACLU fact sheet; [read post]
5 Dec 2005, 10:01 pm
[JURIST Europe] CIA-owned or operated planes made over 210 "ghost flights" through nearly 20 different British airports that may have been used to transport terror detainees [JURIST report] being relocated as part of the US practice of extraordinary rendition, according to the UK Guardian newspaper Tuesday. [read post]
5 Dec 2005, 1:59 am
" Noting European officials' concerns about the CIA's use of extraordinary rendition [Wikipedia backgrounder], Rice asserted that the US government has used rendition for decades when [read post]
24 Jun 2005, 10:34 am
Italian newspapers claim the Milan seizure and deportation of an Egyptian known as Abu Omar in 2003 was part of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program to move terror suspects [read post]
