Outsourcing Torture
am 03.03.2005 von http://blat.antville.org/
The secret history of America’s “extraordinary rendition” program - by JANE MAYER, The New Yorker:
On January 27th, President Bush, in an interview with the Times, assured the world that “torture is never acceptable, nor do …
No Touch Torture
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / ... At home and abroad, the United States has been, for over 50 years a strong voice in the fight against torture. Simultaneously, however, the CIAs method has become so widely accepted that US interrogators seem unaware that they are, in fact, engag…
Collection of Links On Torture
Handakte WebLAWg / - Collection of source materials on torture - Dershowitz on torture - Volokh on torture - Balkinization on torture - Discourse.net (Prof. Froomkin) on torture Quelle: Between Lawyers …
Extraordinary rendition
Transblawg / The World Wide Words newsletter, whose RSS feed I read, has chosen the term extraordinary rendition to comment on. In US law rendition refers to the transfer of individuals by what is called extra-judicial process (kidnapping, in plain speech) from..…
Even more extraordinary rendition / US darf Briten entführen
Transblawg / The Times reports: A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it. The admission will alarm t…
Torture Taxi erklärt
German American Law Journal :: US-Recht auf Deutsch / CK - Washington. ConsortiumNews erklärt die CIA-Verfahren zur Verbringung, Rendition, von Untersuchungshäftlingen in Folterländer im Bericht Aeros Cloaks and Daggers vom 26. August 2006. Die Folterflüge machten auf dem Weg…
Das Folterverbot im Rechtsstaat
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Ein Interview mit Heiner Bielefeldt (mp3), dem Direktor des Deutschen Instituts für Menschenrechte. Summary: Link to an interview (G) about torture in a democratic state.…
The Torture Warrant
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / by Jonathan Myerson, based on true events that occurred in 2002. The man the police have in custody refuses to divulge the whereabouts of his kidnap victim, a boy probably now dying from starvation and exposure. But the clock is ticking. Under such…
Große Guantánamo-Konferenz in London
Menschenrechte / Ehemalige Häftlinge aus Guantánamo und anderen illegalen Haftzentren, die im Namen der Antiterrorismusbekämpfung errichtet wurden, kommen am 19. November auf einer von amnesty und Reprieve organisierten Konferenz zusammen. Weitere Teilnehmer: Inte…
