The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law. This book examines the efforts of authorities in Europe and the US to re-establish rule of law and respect for human rights through the investigation o...

Introduction - Extraordinary Rendition

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Elspeth Guild et al.

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The US-led extraordinary rendition programme directed by the George W. Bush administration a short time after the 9/11 attacks against the United States, and which continued until the advent of the Obama administration, created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protect...

Extraordinary Rendition: Addressing the Challenges of Accountability

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Elspeth Guild et al.

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Dramaturgy of suspicion and the emergence of a transnational guild of extraction of information by torture at a distance

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Didier Bigo

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The practices of “torture at a distance” – that is, the combination of extraordinary renditions to other services abroad in order for them to extract information from the bodies of the suspects and the outsourcing of enhanced interrogation techniques to get results – have only been possible because...

The quest for absolution and immunity: Justifying past and future torture in the name of democracy

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Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet

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The 2002-2009 US government’s global kidnap, secret detention programme and the use of so-called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ during the period of secret detention has been largely discussed and detailed since it was revealed.2 The impressive list of documents and data, as well as internal an...

Democratic oversight and the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme in Europe

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Elspeth Guild

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One of the many ﬁndings that the inquiry about the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme has revealed is that the Agency – when almost obliged to delocalize detainees from US bases abroad following the Pentagon’s reluctance to continue such a programme – had carefully chosen its partners over the...

Dramaturgy of suspicion and the emergence of a transnational guild of extraction of information by torture at a distance

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Didier Bigo

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Mark Gibney, Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films, 2013

Recensions

Michel Tabbal (2014)

Recensions

Tabbal Michel. Mark Gibney, Watching Human Rights: The 101 Best Films, 2013. In: Revue Québécoise de droit international, volume 27-1, 2014. pp. 331-334.

MARK GIBNEY, WATCHING HUMAN RIGHTS: THE 101 BEST FILMS, LONDRES, PARADIGM PUBLISHERS, 2013

Textes imprimés

Michel Tabbal (2014)

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