Editing Extraordinary rendition (section)

{{Short description|State-sponsored abduction and transfer to a third country}}
{{other uses|Extraordinary rendition (disambiguation)}}
{{distinguish|text=other forms of [[extraterritorial abduction]]}}
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'''Extraordinary rendition''' is a [[euphemism|euphemistically-named]] policy of state-sponsored abduction in a foreign jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The best-known use of extraordinary rendition is in a [[United States]]-led program during the [[War on Terror]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vervaele |first1=John A. E. |title=Rendition, Extraterritorial Abduction, and Extraordinary Rendition |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford Bibliographies |doi=10.1093/OBO/9780199796953-0171 |url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199796953/obo-9780199796953-0171.xml}}</ref> which circumvented the source country's laws on [[interrogation]], [[Detention (imprisonment)|detention]], [[extradition]] and/or [[torture]]. Extraordinary rendition is a type of [[extraterritorial abduction]], but not all extraterritorial abductions include transfer to a third country.

Extraordinary rendition began under the administration of [[President Bill Clinton]] and continued under the administration of President [[George W. Bush]], which abducted hundreds of "[[illegal combatant]]s" for U.S. detention and transported them to U.S.-controlled sites as part of an extensive interrogation program that included [[enhanced interrogation|torture]].<ref>Bush administration increased renditions
* {{cite magazine |first=Jane |last=Mayer |title=Outsourcing torture |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/14/outsourcing-torture |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=14 February 2005 |access-date=26 October 2014 }}
* [http://pubrecord.org/torture/292/senate-panels-report-links-detainees-murders-to-bushs-torture-policy/ "Senate Panel's Report Links Detainees' Murders to Bush's Torture Policy"] ''The Public Record'', 30 April 2009.
* Barnes, Greg and Miller, Julian. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-12-na-interrogate-abuse12-story.html "Senate Report Says Rumsfeld to Blame for Detainee Abuse"] ''Los Angeles Times'', 12 September 2008.</ref> Extraordinary rendition continued under the [[Obama administration]], with targets being interrogated and subsequently taken to the U.S. for trial.<ref>Obama administration renditions
* {{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/16/senate_votes_to_ban_torture_will_it_stick_this_time.html |title=Senate votes to ban torture: Will It Stick This Time? |newspaper=Slate.com |date= 16 June 2015 |first=Joshua |last=Keeting |access-date= 16 June 2015}}
* {{cite news |first=Craig |last=Whitlock |title=Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/renditions-continue-under-obama-despite-due-process-concerns/2013/01/01/4e593aa0-5102-11e2-984e-f1de82a7c98a_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=1 January 2013 |access-date=26 October 2014 }}
* {{cite news |first1=Cora |last1=Currier |first2=Suevon |last2=Lee |title=The Secret Prison|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/propublica/2012/07/extraordinary_rendition_proxy_detention_and_gitmo_during_the_obama_administration.html |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |date=26 July 2012 |access-date=26 October 2014 }}</ref> A 2018 report by the [[Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament]] found the [[United Kingdom]], specifically [[MI5]] and [[MI6]], to be complicit in many of the renditions carried out by the U.S., by helping to fund them, by supplying intelligence, and by knowingly allowing the abductions to happen.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/iraq-war-torture-rendition-jack-straw-tony-blair-us-intelligence-agencies-a8421636.html The findings that the UK intelligence agencies knew of torture during the Iraq War reveals the dark side of the special relationship], '' The Independent''</ref>

In July 2014, the [[European Court of Human Rights]] condemned the [[Poland|government of Poland]] for participating in CIA extraordinary rendition, ordering Poland to pay restitution to men who had been abducted, taken to a CIA [[black site]] in Poland, and tortured.<ref name="European Court of Human Rights">{{cite news |agency= Agence France-Presse |title=European court condemns Poland over secret CIA torture prisons|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/10989149/European-court-condemns-Poland-over-secret-CIA-torture-prisons.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/10989149/European-court-condemns-Poland-over-secret-CIA-torture-prisons.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London |date=24 July 2014 |access-date=26 October 2014 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Dan |last=Bilesfsky |title=Court Censures Poland Over C.I.A. Renditions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/world/europe/europe-poland-cia-black-site-extraordinary-rendition.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=24 July 2014 |access-date=26 October 2014 }}</ref><ref name="MyUser_Reuters.com_February_24_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cia-torture-poland-idUSKBN0LL1TP20150217 |title=European court rejects Polish appeal in CIA jail case |work=Reuters |date= 17 February 2015  |first=Christian |last=Lowe |access-date= 24 February 2015}}</ref> Torture is banned under the [[European Convention on Human Rights]], which 46 nations, including Poland, have pledged to uphold.