Rights groups criticize European countries over silence on CIA rendition program
December 19, 2011
Two international human rights organizations on Monday accused European countries of suppressing evidence of their roles in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) rendition program of forced transfer and secret detention. Legal action charity Reprieve, in cooperation with the human rights organiza....... [more] 
Amnesty urges Lithuania to reopen investigation into secret CIA prisons
September 30, 2011
Lithuania must reopen the investigation into secret CIA prisons in light of new evidence, Amnesty International (AI) insisted Thursday. AI cited evidence of rendition flights of Abu Zubaydah in 2005 revealed earlier this year by Reprieve, a London-based human rights organization. AI counter-terrori....... [more]
Ninth Circuit dismissed CIA rendition suit on state secrets grounds
September 8, 2011
On September 8, 2010, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court's dismissal of a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against a Boeing subsidiary in connection with its alleged role in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition pr....... [more]
New Orleans mayor declared martial law during Katrina aftermath
August 31, 2011
On August 31, 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared martial law in the city and reassigned 1,500 New Orleans police officers from search-and-rescue missions to halt widespread looting. This declaration of martial law was only one of a number of extraordinary steps taken by Nagin in an attempt t....... [more]
European Parliament found member states complicit in CIA renditions
July 6, 2011
On July 6, 2006, the European Parliament adopted a report that agreed with earlier findings by the Council of Europe (COE) that European states were complicit in alleged incidents of CIA extraordinary rendition. The report criticized European nations for failing to act or complying with CIA efforts....... [more]
Poland prosecutors ask US to question Guantanamo detainees over secret CIA prison
March 28, 2011
Polish prosecutors investigating an alleged secret CIA prison announced Monday that they are asking US officials to question two Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim they were held and abused at the site. The lawyers submitted their request, which includes a list of questions they would like the Guan....... [more]
DOJ released Bush administration memos on executive authority
March 2, 2011
On March 2, 2009, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) released two memoranda and seven opinions authored by the White House Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) during the presidency of George W. Bush, supporting the administration's counter-terrorism policies. The opinions, dated between 2001 and 2003, sup....... [more]
EU parliament condemned complicity with CIA secret prisons
February 14, 2011
On February 14, 2007, the European Parliament voted 382-256 to approve a report condemning member states for cooperating with the CIA in operating illegal secret prisons and extraordinary rendition flights in Europe. The report condemned the European countries who allowed the CIA to forcibly remove....... [more]
Arar appealed rendition suit to US Supreme Court
February 1, 2011
On February 1, 2010, Canadian citizen Maher Arar petitioned the US Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to overturn a ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit finding that he could not sue the US government for damages based on his detention in the US and his detention, interroga....... [more]
Italy appeals court increases sentences of 23 former CIA agents
December 16, 2010
An Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 former CIA agents for the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, increasing their sentences. Former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady was originally sentenced to eight years in p....... [more]
Germany court rejects El-Masri CIA rendition suit
December 11, 2010
A German administrative court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Khaled El-Masri seeking the arrest and extradition of 13 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents whom El-Masri claims kidnapped and illegally detained him in 2003 as part of the Bush administration's extraordinary rendition program, accordi....... [more]
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