Renditions and Secret Prisons
Donald Rumsfeld said in the early days of Guantánamo Bay that the Cuban gulag was ‘the least worst place to put them.’ After serial media revelations about a global matrix of CIA torture flights and secret prisons scattered from Poland to Afghanistan, the shocking truth of those words is just beginning to reveal itself.
The US government now itself admits to holding 14,000 people without charge and without access to lawyers in various locations – some still undisclosed - around the world, mostly in Iraq, but with significant numbers elsewhere.
The US has engaged in a systematic process of ‘extraordinary rendition,’ that is, illegally transferring prisoners to be interrogated in nation states with a reputation for torture. European nations appear to have colluded in illegal renditions.
Reprieve’s work on renditions is focused on uncovering the extent of the renditions network, exploring the extent of European collusion in the rendition process, gaining access to the prisoners and helping them, and exposing the countries that are responsible for putting so many people beyond the rule of law and due process.
We do this primarily through field investigation, data analysis, and advocacy. Reprieve painstakingly identifies groups of rendered prisoners and advocates on their behalf, throwing light on their illegal incarceration, and working to effect their fair trial or release. Our work continues to shape public debate on the issue and provides decision makers with the facts needed to make the case for reform and the re-assertion of due process rights for all prisoners.
- "Human Cargo": Binyam Mohamed and the Rendition Frequent Flyer Programme
- The Journey Of Death - Portuguese Involvement in Renditions to Guantanamo - Report
- Enforced Dissapearance, Illegal Interstate Transfer, And Other Human Rights Abuses Involving The UK Overseas Territories
- Enforced Dissapearance, Illegal Interstate Transfer, And Other Human Rights Abuses Involving The UK Overseas Territories - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Off the Record: Report on US Responsibility for Enforced Dissapearances in the "War on Terror"
- Council of Europe Report: Reprieve Calls for Immediate Investigation of Secret Prison on British Island of Diego Garcia
- UK Residents in GTMO - BETRAYED BY BRITAIN? Briefing from Clive Stafford Smith, Legal Director of Reprieve
- REPORT: Mass Rendition, Incommunicado Detention and Possible Torture of Foreign Nationals in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia
- Reprieve reports of growing evidence of British governmental involvement in the seizure and rendition of Bisher Al-Rawi and Jamil El-Banna, British residents “grabbed in The Gambia”, sent for torture in the “Dark Prison” in Kabul, and then taken to Guantanamo Bay
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