Extraordinary rendition

The term Extraordinary rendition ( German: extraordinary rendition, and rendition of terrorism suspects ) refers to the kidnapping and transferring a person from one State to another without legal basis. In this context, the term is torture by proxy ( to German: Deputy torture) used by critics of these overpasses to describe processes, are where transferred within the framework of the fight against terrorism so-called terror suspects to countries where the prosecution of partially violate human rights interrogation techniques like torture is marked. Another area mentioned by critics that this torture happens in privity or consent, even in the originating government.

The Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in April 2006 in a radio interview that the United States did not keep people in places from which it may be known that they would be tortured. This statement is in contrast to prosecutorial investigations, for example in the case of Abu Omar.

Violation of UN conventions

This approach of the United States has raised a number of moral, legal and political accusations and led to several official investigations of the European Union. A June 2006 report of the Council of Europe estimated that 100 people were kidnapped by the CIA on European territory and transferred to other countries - often only after they went through so-called black sites that were operated by the CIA in cooperation with the respective Governments. According to a report by the European Parliament of February 2007, the CIA conducted 1,245 flights, which often countries had the goal in which the suspects could be exposed in disregard of the third article of the UN Convention against Torture torture. A large majority of the European Parliament confirmed the result of the report, said that many member states tolerated illegal actions of the CIA and criticized several European governments and their intelligence agencies for their unwillingness to cooperate in the investigations.

Durable "disappearances" of suspects

In 2006 published a consortium of six human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, a list of 36 individuals who were either imprisoned or appear with high probability by U.S. authorities under suspicion of terrorism, and the " disappeared " (English disappeared ) are. You are not resurfaced, nor the U.S. authorities would answer questions about their future fate, or their whereabouts. This situation had not changed significantly until April 2009. The American law professor Margaret Satterthwaite said:

"Until the U.S. government clears the fate and the whereabouts of these individuals, these people are still disappeared, and disappearance is one of the most serious international human rights violations. ( Until the U.S. government clarifies the fate and whereabouts of individuals thesis, thesis people are quietly disappeared, and disappearance is one of the most grave international human rights violations. ) "