Renditions exposed
The Council of Europe today came out with a bashing report on the US “ghost flights” in Europe, identifying a “spider’s web” of landing points around the world airports, used by the CIA for its “extraordinary rendition” program, whereby Islamist suspects are moved around the world to secret detention and interrogation centers. The report also exposed 14 European countries, which are either “involved in or complicit” in the suspects’ illegal transfer and detention.
Washington and several European capitals, stand accused, have rejected the report, saying it’s solely based on “allegations.”
British journalist, and friend, Stephen Grey sent me a Guardian report he wrote on the subject. Stephen has been investigating renditions and the global US-run Gulag since 2003, and has produced some of the best investigative pieces on the subject.
Here’s also a Human Rights Watch report I co-authored on renditions to Egypt.
Categories: Egypt, Human rights, Military, Political Islam, Terrorism, US policy.
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Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and a few other NGOs, have designated June Torture Awareness Month. We’ve created a blogroll you can join if you’re interested. You can find it here. The idea is that everyone is linked to from the blogroll, and in exchange, you discuss torture (as you already do), and link to the Torture Awareness site to help support the NGOs.
There’s a lot of bloggers concerned about human rights abuse in the War on Terror. If we coordinate, we can show our support and help Amnesty and HRW make Torture Awareness Month a success.
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