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Extraordinary rendition is the practice of kidnapping or capturing people and sending them to countries where they face a high risk of torture or abuse in interrogations. Under the Bush administration, the U.S. government systematically sent people off to a “who’s who” of nations known to use torture—including Egypt, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Yemen. Under the Bush administration’s ...
17. Okt. 2007 · Extraordinary Rendition. · Extraordinary rendition is the practice of kidnapping or capturing people and sending them to countries that use torture or abuse. The government has sent detainees to countries infamous for their mistreatment of prisoners, including XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />Syria, Jordan, Morocco, and Egypt.
5. Feb. 2013 · Known as "extraordinary rendition," the practice concerns taking detainees to and from U.S. custody without a legal process -- think of it like an off-the-books extradition -- and often entailed ...
6. Feb. 2005 · Although the full scope of the extraordinary-rendition program isn’t known, several recent cases have come to light that may well violate U.S. law. In 1998, Congress passed legislation declaring ...
15. Jan. 2016 · The revelations the Bush administration employed torture in ‘black sites’ and outsourced torture through the ‘extraordinary rendition’ programme demonstrated how the torture prohibition, or torture taboo, failed to constrain the United States (US) and other complicit states from engaging in torture in the fight against terrorism. Yet despite this violation of the taboo, this article ...
31. Juli 2013 · De Sousa now admits that at the time of the extraordinary rendition, she was a CIA agent and involved in the rendition as a translator between the CIA snatch team and their Italian counterparts. Incensed for “being held accountable for decisions that someone else took,” De Sousa has provided shocking – but by no means surprising – details about the extraordinary rendition operation in ...
12. März 2010 · Nevertheless, since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has pursued extraordinary rendition as a policy tool to combat terrorism (Committee 2004; Mayer 2005). Acts by the United States include not only the forcible removal of persons from foreign countries, but the kidnapping of persons from U.S. soil and surrender to foreign jurisdictions for torture (Mayer 2005 ).
