Two European cases involving the CIA and extraordinary rendition put the case of Dirar Abusisi in the spotlight today.
31 December 2012 by David Hart QC.
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Their landmark complaint was lodged with the Inter-American Commission in 2011 after a federal case they filed was thrown out on … Extraordinary rendition gets to Strasbourg – a right to the truth. El-Masri v. The Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia, Grand Chamber of ECtHR, 13 December 2012, read judgment In a hard-hitting judgment, the 17 judges of the Grand Chamber found Macedonia (FYROM) responsible for the extraordinary rendition of Mr El-Masri, a German national, …

Published 28 June 2018. I n 2012, Starmer announced that MI5 and MI6 agents would not face charges of torture and extraordinary rendition during the Iraq War, concluding that there was insufficient evidence to … The European Court of Human Rights found Macedonia guilty of collaborating with the CIA in the case of Khaled al Masri, who was kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. in Afghanistan until he was able to persuade his captors that they had the wrong man. This practice, called ‘extraordinary rendition,’ under certain conditions goes further than arbitrary detention and shows similarities to the forced disappearance of persons.

“Extraordinary rendition” is widely used to describe the kidnapping (Foley, 2008) and transfer of suspects by the United States to foreign countries (Ralph, 2009) and secret prisons and secret prisons in order to carry out “coercive interrogation” (Foley, 2008) making it very likely that the individual will be subject to torture and other forms of inhuman, degrading treatment. Intelligence services’ watchdog finds UK complicity in numerous extraordinary rendition cases. Britain’s intelligence services were involved in numerous extraordinary rendition operations between 2001-10 – those where there is a real risk of torture – according to a new report. They deal with testimony potentially obtained through torture, forced labour and extraordinary rendition respectively. Binyam Mohamed, Abou Elkassim Britel, Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, and Bisher al-Rawi are victims of the US extraordinary rendition programme – the post-9/11 coordinated global enterprise of kidnapping, bounty payments, incommunicado detention, and torture. There are three cases, among the many decided by the Court in the past few weeks, which I would like to highlight. The case against Macedonia, which has become the first government called to account by an international court for its collaboration with the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme, was … the “extraordinary rendition” the abduction by CIA agents, with – the cooperation of Italian nationals of Egyptian imam Abu Omar, and his transfer to – Egypt, followed by his secret detention there for several months. The first is the case of El Haski v. Belgium (available only in French).