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A Spanish judge on Wednesday ordered the National Intelligence Center , Spain's state intelligence agency to declassify any documents it has about secret CIA extraordinary rendition flights . The order comes in Judge Ismael Moreno's investigation...

Germany issued arrest warrants for 13 people allegedly involved with the CIA kidnapping of German citizen Khaled el-Masri , German Prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld said Wednesday. Schmidt-Sommerfeld did not name any of the suspects, however, but told AP...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday denied any knowledge of the alleged CIA kidnapping of German national Khaled el-Masri until after the man was released. Steinmeier, who has previously denied...

Lawyers for German national Khalid el-Masri argued Wednesday before the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that his civil case against the CIA for his alleged 2003 extraordinary rendition from...

Gitanjali Gutierrez : "In March 2003, Majid Khan, his brother, his sister-in-law, and his year-old niece were arrested by Pakistani intelligence. It was more than three years before Majid was heard from...

A lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish citizen who is also a legal resident of Germany, said Tuesday that Germany is investigating allegations of abuse by German soldiers. Kurnaz, who...

Khaled el-Masri wept Monday as he testified before a Spanish judge about his alleged extraordinary rendition to Afghanistan by US intelligence agents. El-Masri, a German citizen born in Kuwait, described how he was...

JURIST Guest Columnist Alison Nathan of Fordham University School of Law says that the provision in the military commissions bill stripping the federal courts of habeas jurisdiction over detainees threatens a fundamental element of our constitutional heritage ... Following a...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Tuesday it has appealed the dismissal of a highly publicized lawsuit brought by the ACLU against CIA Director George Tenet and other agency officials...

A federal judge Thursday rejected a US Department of Justice (DOJ) motion to dismiss on state secrets grounds a class action lawsuit brought against...