Extraordinary Rendition

Author : Elspeth Guild,Didier Bigo,Mark Gibney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Abduction
ISBN : 0367591286

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Extraordinary Rendition by Elspeth Guild,Didier Bigo,Mark Gibney Pdf

The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the US to re-establish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation of the program and its outcomes. The contributions to this volume examine the supranational and national inquiries into the US CIA-led extraordinary rendition and secret detention programme in Europe. The book takes as a starting point two recent and far-reaching developments in delivering accountability and establishing the truth: First, the publication of the executive summary of the US Senate Intelligence Committee (Feinstein) Report, and second, various European Court of Human Rights judgments regarding the complicity of several state parties and the incompatibility of those actions with the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). The collective volume provides the first stock-taking review of the state of affairs in the quest for accountability, and identifies significant obstacles in going even further -- as international law demands. It will be vital reading for students and scholars in a wide range of areas, including international relations, international law, public policy and counter-terrorism studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Open Society Inst
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 193613375X

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Globalizing Torture by Anonim Pdf

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a highly classified program of secret detention and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects. The program was designed to place detainee interrogations beyond the reach of law. Suspected terrorists were seized and secretly flown across national borders to be interrogated by foreign governments that used torture, or by the CIA itself in clandestine 'black sites' using torture techniques. This report is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It details for the first time the number of known victims, and lists the foreign governments that participated in these operations. It shows that responsibility for the abuses lies not only with the United States but with dozens of foreign governments that were complicit. More than 10 years after the 2001 attacks, this report makes it unequivocally clear that the time has come for the United States and its partners to definitively repudiate these illegal practices and secure accountability for the associated human rights abuses.

Author : Jordan H. Carver
Publisher : UR (Urban Research)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947198017

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Spaces of Disappearance by Jordan H. Carver Pdf

By investigating the sovereign claims of American power and the architectural spaces of secret prisons, Spaces of Disappearance reconstructs the network of black siteprisons developed in the early years of the so-called War on Terror. Jordan H. Carver compiles an original archive of architectural representations, redacted documents, and media reports to build a knowingly incomplete spatial history of post-9/11 extraordinary rendition. Framed by an introductory essay by architectural historian and theorist Felicity D. Scott that positions Carver's work withina longer history of military strategy andstate violence against "uncertain" warfare, this book skillfully presents the territorialand political logics of the top-secret CIA Detention and Interrogation Program. Spaces of Disappearance shows how architectures of con nement were designed to deny prisoners their human subjectivity and describes how the spectacle of government bureaucracyis used as a substitute for accountability.

Author : Ru (ed.) Freeman
Publisher : Olive Branch Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1566560608

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Extraordinary Rendition by Ru (ed.) Freeman Pdf

Sixty-five writers contribute to a groundbreaking anthology on Palestine. This collection brings together the work of sixty-five prominent writers to examine America’s culpability in the denial of human rights and dignity to Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and beyond. It includes pieces by writers such as Chana Bloch, Marilyn Hacker, Jane Hirshfield, Colum McCann, Claire Messud, Roger Reeves, George Saunders and Alice Walker. In writing that is always clear, and often startlingly beautiful, they cover a range of issues including the erasure and reconstruction of histories, the examination of identity, the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of speaking out as artists, the conditions of occupation, and the potential for activism. The anthology makes a significant contribution toward an understanding of the ways people of conscience in general, and writers in particular, can take on one of the most pressing political questions of our time.

Author : Andrew Tyrie,Roger Gough,Stuart McCracken
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Extraordinary rendition
ISBN : 1849541094

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Account Rendered by Andrew Tyrie,Roger Gough,Stuart McCracken Pdf

Account Rendered combines a forty-thousand word history and analysis of extraordinary rendition with a compendium of relevant documents.

Author : Crofton Black
Publisher : Aperture Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1597113514

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Negative Publicity by Crofton Black Pdf

"British photographer Edmund Clark and counterterrorism investigator Crofton Black have assembled photographs and documents that confront the nature of contemporary warfare and the invisible mechanisms of state control. From George W. Bush's 2001 declaration of the "war on terror" until 2008, an unknown number of people disappeared into a network of secret prisons organized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency -- transfers without legal process known as extraordinary renditions. No public records were kept as detainees were shuttled all over the globe. Some were eventually sent to Guantánamo Bay or released without charge, while others remain unaccounted for"--Publisher's description.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422321185

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Extraordinary rendition in U.S. counterterrorism policy : the impacts on transatlantic relations : joint hearing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kristen Boon,Douglas Lovelace,Aziz Huq
Publisher : Terrorism: Commentary on Secur
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195398137

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Extraordinary Rendition by Kristen Boon,Douglas Lovelace,Aziz Huq Pdf

Volume 108 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents tackles the contentious issue that appears in the volume's title: "Extraordinary Rendition". Although many commentators and publications have focused on the U.S. policy of such troubling transfers, little focus has been devoted to the reaction to this policy by the rest of the world. In this volume, new General Co-Editor Aziz Huq both presents the key documents demonstrating that reaction and comments authoritatively on what those documents mean for the future of torture-based international transfers. For ease of research, Huq has divided the volume into two sections: the first deals with U.N. and E.U. responses to the U.S. policy, including a case before the U.N. Committee Against Torture, and the second section tours the reports and cases on rendition that have arisen from national jurisdictions, specifically Italy, Sweden, the U.K., ireland, and Canada.

Author : Elspeth Guild,Didier Bigo,Mark Gibney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351172868

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Extraordinary Rendition by Elspeth Guild,Didier Bigo,Mark Gibney Pdf

The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the US to re-establish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation of the program and its outcomes. The contributions to this volume examine the supranational and national inquiries into the US CIA-led extraordinary rendition and secret detention programme in Europe. The book takes as a starting point two recent and far-reaching developments in delivering accountability and establishing the truth: First, the publication of the executive summary of the US Senate Intelligence Committee (Feinstein) Report, and second, various European Court of Human Rights judgments regarding European Union Member States’ complicity with the CIA and their incompatibility with the European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). The collective volume provides the first stock-taking review of the state of affairs in the quest for accountability in the EU, and identifies significant obstacles to further accountability in a selection of EU member states under investigation. It will be vital reading for students and scholars in a wide range of areas, including international relations, international law, public policy and counter-terrorism studies.

Author : Alan W Clarke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813553122

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Rendition to Torture by Alan W Clarke Pdf

Universally condemned and everywhere illegal, torture goes on in democracies as well as in dictatorships. Nonetheless, many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Nothing seemed extreme when it came to questioning real and imagined terrorists. Extraordinary rendition—sending people captured in the “war on terror” to nations long counted among the world’s worst human rights violators—hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations. “Torture lite” or “torture without marks” became the norm for those in American custody. In Rendition to Torture, Alan W. Clarke explains how the United States adopted torture as a matter of official policy; how and why it turned to extraordinary rendition as a way to outsource more extreme, mutilating forms of torture; and outlines the steps the United States took to hide its abuses. Many adverse consequences attended American use of torture. False information gleaned from torture was used to justify the Iraq war, adding potency to the charge that the war was illegal under international law. Moreover, European nations and Canada aided, abetted, and became thoroughly enmeshed in U.S.-led torture and renditions, thereby spreading both the problem and the blame for this practice. Clarke offers an extended critique of these activities, placing them in historical and legal context as well as in transnational and comparative perspective.

Author : Trevor Paglen,A. C. Thompson
Publisher : Icon Books Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1840468300

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Torture Taxi by Trevor Paglen,A. C. Thompson Pdf

This is an investigative journalism in the mould of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. This is an incredible story of shadowy CIA kidnappings followed by imprisonment and torture. The secret may be out, but the horror remains in this original expose of extraordinary rendition. This is the incredible story of how the CIA's darkest secret of the War on Terror - the 'extraordinary rendition' programme - was exposed. It's no longer a secret: since 9/11, the CIA has quietly kidnapped more than a hundred people and detained them at prisons throughout the world. Often, the detainees are tortured or disappear entirely. Now infamous, the 'extraordinary rendition' programme is a key part of the largest clandestine operation since the end of the Cold War. In this shocking book, an award-winning investigative journalist and a 'military geographer' explore the programme in journeys around the world: to suburban Massachusetts to profile a CIA front company supplying the agency with planes; to North Carolina to track down the pilots; to the San Francisco suburbs to study with a planespotter who monitors the CIA's movements; and to Afghanistan, where they visit the notorious Salt Pit prison and interview released Afghan detainees. The kidnappings have not stopped. On the contrary, the rendition programme has been formalised, colluding with the military when necessary, and constantly changing its cover to remain hidden from sight. This is a chilling looking at the logistics of torture which shows how far Bush is prepared to go in the 'war on terror'.

Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Gold Eagle
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426869204

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Extraordinary Rendition by Don Pendleton Pdf

On the streets of a democratic Russia, espionage, civil war and Mafiya control dominate a new kind of battlefield. Bolan's mission: locate, extract and deliver a ruthless Russian arms dealer to a transport team ready to take him back to the United States to stand trial. But the Russian made friends in high places—CIA, FBI, KGB—during his career as both a player and a pawn. With compromising leaks high up in counterintelligence circles, and a hard force of specialized handlers keeping him alive and doing deals with rogue nations, the arms merchant is a hard man to get to, much less take alive. Bolan doesn't get hung up on odds, risk or the roll of the dice. He's focused on a mission gone sour in hostile territory—and his personal commitment to finishing by any means necessary.

Author : Suzanne Egan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030041229

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Extraordinary Rendition and Human Rights by Suzanne Egan Pdf

This book explores the potential of international human rights law to resolve one of the gravest human rights violations to have surfaced post 9/11: extraordinary rendition. Although infamously deployed as a counter-terrorism technique, substantial evidence confirms that European states colluded in the practice by facilitating the transportation of suspects through their airspace or airports and in some cases, secret detention on their territories. Despite recent findings of the European Court of Human Rights, difficulties persist in holding many European States accountable for the role they played both at the domestic and international level. Distinguishing between various forms of accountability and interrogating the evolving parameters of international human rights law, this volume will fill gaps in extraordinary rendition literature and influence the policies of European States.

Author : Helen Duffy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521838504

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The 'War on Terror' and the Framework of International Law by Helen Duffy Pdf

The acts of lawlessness committed on September 11, 2001 were followed by a 'war on terror'. This book sets out the essential features of the international legal framework against which the '9/11' attacks and the lawfulness of measures taken in response thereto fall to be assessed. It addresses, in an accessible manner, relevant law in relation to: 'terrorism', questions as to 'responsibility' for it, the criminal law framework, lawful constraints on the use of force, the humanitarian law that governs in armed conflict, and international human rights law. It indicates the existence of a legal framework capable of addressing events such as '9/11' and governing responses thereto. The author examines the compatibility of the 'war on terror' with this legal framework, and questions the implications for states responsible for violations, for third states and for the international rule of law.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Detention of persons
ISBN : PSU:000063502831

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Extraordinary Rendition, Extraterritorial Detention and Treatment of Detainees by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf