Sentences with phrase «extraordinary rendition»
"Extraordinary rendition" is a term used to describe the secret transfer of individuals from one country to another without following standard legal procedures. It typically involves the transfer of suspects or prisoners to countries where they may be subjected to torture or other forms of interrogations that would be illegal in the transferring country. Full definition
My husband, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born and raised in Syria, faced a public trial in 2002 while he was the victim of extraordinary rendition initiated by U.S. authorities with the complicity of Canadian law enforcement as well as Jordanian and Syrian authorities, official and de facto allies of the U.S. war on terror.
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Serpentine and The White Review presented live readings by Iphgenia Baal, Charlie Fox and Nisha Ramayya inside the summer exhibition, Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions at Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Ex-shadow home secretary David Davis and the chairman of the all - party group on extraordinary rendition, Andrew Tyrie, want a senior judge to investigate the circumstances surrounding the treatment of Mr Mohamed.
Even the Anti-American ACLU acknowledges the Clinton administration particapated in Extraordinary Rendition.
Even the establishment do not escape unharmed, thanks to a brilliant dialogue between police snipers at the film's climax, and a bitter swipe at extraordinary rendition policies.
Two US planes each carrying a terror suspect for extraordinary rendition purposes refuelled on a UK territory in 2002, David Miliband has admitted to parliament.
What happened next is not officially known, but lawyers representing the Ethiopian - born Mr Mohamed claim he was flown by extraordinary rendition to Morocco and Afghanistan.
You laugh for a second, but when an image of Jimmy Savile flashes up, and you are reminded of him hiding in plain sight for all those years, or when you think about extraordinary rendition, your smile is frozen on your face.
That seems to leave only extraordinary rendition — essentially kidnapping the wanted person and then using covert means to spirit him out of the United States.
The claims about so - called extraordinary rendition began in November last year, when Human Rights Watch said it had proof the CIA was conducting «enhanced interrogation techniques» on prisoners in secret detention centres in Europe.
Martin Scheinin is also expected to repeat his claim that he was «deeply troubled» by the «comprehensive» system of extraordinary rendition used by the Pentagon to ferry terrorist suspects over the world.
Arthur Jafa A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions Direct - to - disc on The Vinyl Factory Lathe on 9 September 2017.
Back to school: Trevor Paglen produced his important early work on military black sites and extraordinary rendition while pursuing a doctorate in geography at the University of California, Berkeley.
A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions transformed the Serpentine Sackler Gallery into an immersive assemblage of still and moving images.
Zubaydah v. Lithuania, ECtHR: work for Interights in case concerning extraordinary rendition, extraterritorial jurisdiction and torture.
A second reason to decry extraordinary rendition is that it's a crime under both US and international law.
Maher Arar was subject to extraordinary rendition from New York City to Syria by US authorities in the middle of the night in September 2002.
Edmund Clark, Redacted image of a complex of buildings where a pilot identified as having flown rendition flights lives, from Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition, by Crofton Black and Edmund Clark 4.
The Mubarak regime's collaboration with London and Washington — not least on extraordinary rendition — is a case in point.
The UN Convention Against Torture, which Congress and President Clinton made law in 1994, says it is a crime to «effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture...» Apologists for extraordinary rendition — that is, apologists for torture by proxy — argue that our extraordinary enemy justifies extraordinary measures.
This Limited Edition Vinyl Record is produced on the occasion of Arthur Jafa's exhibition A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery (8 June — 10 September 2017).
Observers believe the payments are being made in order to keep documents sealed that may reveal British participation in extraordinary rendition and torture...
Extraordinary rendition?
Former CIA director George Tenet later testified that, in the years before 9/11, the CIA shipped some 70 individuals to foreign countries without formal extradition — a process dubbed «extraordinary rendition» that had been explicitly banned under Article 3 of the U.N. Convention.
The prisoner does not need to be dressed in Gitmo orange, and it is welcome that the programme — with its unimaginative references to extraordinary rendition — is not available until the end.
Ken Clarke, the Conservative chairman of the all - party group on extraordinary rendition, said: «Given the fulsome nature of the apology, the question has to be asked why it has taken the government so long to settle this matter, particularly when Mr Belhaj offered to settle the case in 2013 for # 3 and an apology?
«We look forward to the Metropolitan Police investigation into this particular case but the wider public interest still requires a full judicial inquiry into all British involvement in extraordinary rendition.»
A law banning the use of British sites to conduct «extraordinary rendition» flights has been drawn up by an all - party group.
Organisers called on the new government to make «illegal wars, torture, extraordinary rendition, and the flagrant and shameless abuse of human rights a thing of the past».
The United States was only able to pursue its extraordinary rendition policy with the help of allies during the Bush administration's war on terror, including Britain, a UN report is expected to say today.
Ministers admit they handed over terror suspects in Iraq to US, sparking claims of extraordinary rendition - BBC
They should at least pause to consider, amongst the myriad of issues and concerns closest to them, one of the darkest episodes of New Labour's decade in power, namely the role allegedly played by a number of Ministers in what has come to be known as «Extraordinary Rendition».
Former Prime Minister, Tony Blair and former Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw and David Miliband, now face some extremely tough questions as to how much they knew about the extraordinary rendition of prisoners to Libya where they were tortured.
Here is what one of them had to say when asked if the Brits objected to extraordinary rendition.
He set up and chairs the all - party committee on extraordinary rendition and is a strong advocate of constitutional and parliamentary reform.
Extraordinary rendition is the apprehension and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another.
In its best passages, his speech showed by example why Liberal Democrats matter: speaking out against BAE arms sales, or extraordinary rendition.
In 2003 she's thrown into the interrogation business as a witness to the extraordinary rendition and torture of suspected terrorists.
Audiences concerned that «Rendition» errs on the side of bleeding - heart liberals can take solace in the film's willingness to cast blame for the origin of «extraordinary rendition,» as part of U.S. government policy, on former President Clinton.
Arthur Jafa, «A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions», Serpentine Galleries, London, 2017, installation view.
This catalogue is published to accompany Arthur Jafa's exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries: A Series of Utterly Improbably, Yet Extraordinary Renditions (8 June — 10 September 2017) that travelled to the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin (11 February — 25 November 2018).
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Images: Installation view of the exhibition «Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions,» Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London.