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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]
27 Oct 2015, 7:10 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
At least one writer has suggested that the Salem witchcraft trials have "disquieting the resonances in a post-9/11 world of extraordinary rendition and practices such as waterboarding. [read post]
13 Sep 2015, 4:20 am by Cecilia Marcela Bailliet
Yasmin Naqvi delineated IHL dilemmas and Professor Helen Duffy addressed the challenges of attaining accountability for extraordinary rendition. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 5:30 am by Guest Blogger
Niro Professor of Law at DePaul University, has accomplished something quite extraordinary. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 4:00 am by Alex Neve
Ahmad Abou-Elmaati, Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin all suffered from a Canadian version of extraordinary rendition. [read post]
That was in the early days of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, in which it outsourced the detention and torture of suspects to other countries. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 12:31 pm by Shawn Marie Boyne
The extraordinary rendition program aimed to outsource the interrogation and detention of suspected terrorists. [read post]
The executive summary released last week makes only passing reference to an integral component of the CIA program: the "extraordinary rendition" of prisoners to foreign custody for "interrogation" by those countries' intelligence services—with the full knowledge that the men would be tortured. [read post]
The review will test the pledges President Obama made to reverse disastrous Bush-era policies that led to gross violations of human rights, like torture, secret and incommunicado detention, "extraordinary renditions," unfair trials, and more. [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 8:23 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 3:27 pm by Michel-Adrien Sheppard
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]
23 Oct 2014, 3:17 pm by Michel-Adrien
Roach is the author of The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter Terrorism Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and the editor of Comparative Counter-Terrorism Law (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press).He served as research director for the Canadian inquiry into the 1985 terrorist bombing of Air India Flight 182 flying from Canada to New Delhi that caused the largest loss of life in Canadian history from a single terrorist attack, and on the research advisory committee of the commission of… [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 7:21 am by Immigration Prof
Extraordinary Rendition Paperback by Paul Batista (2013 Fiction) When Ali Hussein, suspected terrorist and alleged banker for Al Qaeda, is finally transported from Guantanamo Bay to the US mainland to stand trial, many are stunned when Byron Carlos Johnson, a... [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 10:31 am by Elizabeth LaForgia
[JURIST] Ten victims of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] extraordinary rendition program [JURIST news archive] have signed an open letter [text, PDF] to US President Barack Obama [official website] urging him to declassify the upcoming Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the program. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Hussein has been the subject of “extraordinary rendition,” the practice of sending prisoners to countries that allow torture of those prisoners. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 11:18 am by Dave Maass
Paglen is also the author of five books, including Torture Taxi, an early look at the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. [read post]
2 Aug 2014, 9:39 am by Marty Lederman
  And that’s the reason why, after I took office, one of the first things I did was to ban some of the extraordinary interrogation techniques that are the subject of that report. [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 1:11 pm by William Helbling
Amnesty International (AI) [official website] on Thursday reported [AI report] that the secret prison was established by the Polish Government in an effort to contribute to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) [official website] extraordinary rendition program [JURIST... [read post]
25 Jul 2014, 3:20 pm by InternationalLaw Blogger
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held that Poland violated the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms by cooperating with the United States in operating secret detention facilities where persons arrested in the war on terror... [read post]