Editing Extraordinary rendition (section)

=== Khaled Masri case ===
{{Main|Khaled El-Masri}}
[[Khalid El-Masri]] (born 1963) is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the [[Macedonian police]], and handed over to the U.S. [[CIA]]. While in CIA custody, he was flown to Afghanistan, where he was allegedly held in a [[black site]], interrogated, beaten, strip-searched, sodomized, and subjected to other [[inhuman or degrading treatment|inhuman and degrading treatment]], which at times escalated to torture, though none of those claims can be verified.<ref>[http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/CASE_OF_EL-MASRI_v__THE_FORMER_YUGOSLAV_REPUBLIC_OF_MACEDONIA.pdf – (para. 205) El Masri v. Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia]</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Protokoll Befragung Bundesinnenminister a.D. Otto Schily zur Entfuehrung von Khaled El Masri durch den CIA, 2006 |url=https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Protokoll_Befragung_Bundesinnenminister_a.D._Otto_Schily_zum_Fall_El_Masri%2C_2006 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/safefree/elmasri_iachr_20080409.pdf|title= ACLU petition 2006|author=ACLU}}</ref><ref>(para 151) [http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/CASE_OF_EL-MASRI_v__THE_FORMER_YUGOSLAV_REPUBLIC_OF_MACEDONIA.pdf ''El Masri v. Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'']</ref><ref name="hudoc.echr.coe.int">{{cite web|url=http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng/pages/search.aspx?i=001-115621|title=HUDOC – European Court of Human Rights|access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref> After El-Masri held hunger strikes, and was detained for four months in the "[[Salt Pit]]", the CIA finally admitted his arrest was a mistake and released him.<ref name="wapo050906">{{cite news |author=Markon, Jerry |title=Lawsuit Against CIA is Dismissed |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/18/AR2006051802107.html |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=19 May 2006 |access-date=11 October 2008}}</ref> He is believed to be among an estimated 3,000 detainees, including several key leaders of al Qaeda, whom the CIA captured from 2001 to 2005, in its campaign to dismantle terrorist networks.<ref name="wapo051204">{{cite news|last=Priest|first=Dana|author-link=Dana Priest|date=4 December 2005|title=Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/03/AR2005120301476_pf.html|access-date=2 July 2013}}</ref>