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• Extraordinary rendition describes the extrajudicial transfer of a person from one state to another. Critics of the practice say that extraordinary rendition has been used by the CIA to transfer terrorist suspects to countries known to use torture or to "black sites," secret prisons operated by the CIA outside U.S. legal jurisdiction.

• Fast Facts

  1. Amnesty International reports that rendition has been used by the CIA since 1995Amnesty International: [1]
  2. New York Bar Association estimates 150 people have been subjected to rendition since 2001
  3. CIA secret prisons used for rendition purposes first reported by Dana Priest of The Washington Post
  4. • Afghanistan
  5. • Cuba
  6. • Iraq
  7. • Jordan
  8. • Pakistan
  9. • Thailand
  10. • Uzbekistan
  11. • Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory)
  12. • Muhammad Abdullah Salah al-Assad
  13. • [[Salah Nasser Salim ‘Ali]]
  14. • Muhammad Faraj Ahmed Bashmilah
  15. • Maher Arar

• EU Investigations

  A June 2006 report issued by the Council of Europe estimates that 100 people have been kidnapped by the CIA on EU territory and rendered to other countries through secret detention centers, or "black sites," used by the CIA in cooperation with foreign governments.

  A 2007 European Parliamentary report states that the CIA has conducted as many as 1,245 flights to destinations where suspects could have faced torture.

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  Diego Garcia CIA Prison | Secret Torture Memos | War on Terror | Iraq War | Guantanamo Bay | Rendition (Film) | Andrew Warren CIA

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