Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Reverse Rendition
Its pretty bad when Egypt treats the US like the new Syria, or the new Egypt!
US officials continue to mouth platitudes about their commitment to human rights and rejection of torture as a matter of course, and yet reports of this sort of thing are becoming so commonplace that the reality must be blatantly evident for most of the world. Maybe its just another reality tv show for Americans. You don't get upset when Josh bumps Tricia from "The Bachelor" so why raise a fuss when so-and-so dissapears for two years...
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Guantanamo: New "Reverse Rendition" Case
29 Mar 2005 14:55:08 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch
(New York, March 30, 2005) – A Yemeni businessman captured in Egypt was handed over to U.S. authorities and "disappeared" for more than a year and a half before being sent to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, Human Rights Watch said today. In a new briefing, Human Rights Watch today released details of the previously unreported case of 'Abd al-Salam 'Ali al-Hila, a Yemeni terror suspect initially detained in Cairo by Egyptian authorities in 2002 and currently held at Guantanamo.
While considerable attention has been paid recently to U.S. renditions of suspects to third countries, the al-Hila case is new evidence of the reverse: foreign authorities picking up suspects in non-combat and non-battlefield situations and handing them over to the United States without basic protections afforded to criminal suspects...
US officials continue to mouth platitudes about their commitment to human rights and rejection of torture as a matter of course, and yet reports of this sort of thing are becoming so commonplace that the reality must be blatantly evident for most of the world. Maybe its just another reality tv show for Americans. You don't get upset when Josh bumps Tricia from "The Bachelor" so why raise a fuss when so-and-so dissapears for two years...
Tags: Reverse Rendition
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