Editing Extraordinary rendition (section)

== Other cases ==
''This is a non-exhaustive list of some alleged examples of extraordinary rendition.  Most cannot be confirmed.''
* A Pakistani newspaper reported that in the early hours of 23 October 2001 a Yemeni citizen, Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, a 27-year-old [[microbiology]] student at [[Karachi University]], was spirited aboard a private plane at Karachi's airport by Pakistani security officers.<ref name="Washpost041227">{{cite news | title=Jet is an Open Secret in Terror War | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A27826-2004Dec26?language=printer| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050417024650/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A27826-2004Dec26?language=printer| url-status=dead| archive-date=17 April 2005| access-date=12 February 2007 |newspaper=The Washington Post| date=27 December 2004 }}</ref>
* In October 2001, [[Mamdouh Habib]], who lives in Australia and has both Australian and Egyptian nationality (having been born in Egypt), was detained in Pakistan, where he was interrogated for three weeks, and then flown to Egypt in a private plane. From Egypt, he was later flown to a US airbase in Afghanistan. He told the BBC that he did not know who had held him, but had seen Americans, Australians, Pakistanis, and Egyptians among his captors. He also said that he had been beaten, given electric shocks, [[deprived of sleep]], blindfolded for eight months and brainwashed.<ref name="Talesoftorture" /> After signing confessions of involvement with al-Qaeda, which he has now retracted, Mr Habib was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. He was released without charge in January 2005.<ref name="Bbc051207">{{cite news | title='Tortured' Australian speaks out | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4505886.stm | access-date=18 December 2005 |publisher=BBC News | date=7 December 2005 }}</ref> Former Pakistani Interior Minister [[Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat]] told in an interview by the Australian current affairs programme ''[[Dateline (Australian TV program)|Dateline]]'' that Mr Habib was linked with the "terrorist element" operating at that time. However, he contradicted himself a few minutes later, in the same interview, saying that Habib had been assumed guilty because he was in the restricted province of [[Balochistan (Pakistan)|Baluchistan]] without proper visa documents.<ref name="Habib">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4214747.stm Profile: Mamdouh Habib], BBC News, 7 December 2005</ref>
* In late 2001 [[Siddeq Ahmad Siddeq Nour Turkistani|Saddiq Ahmad Turkistani]] was freed by US forces from a [[Taliban]] prison in [[Kandahar]], Afghanistan. At a news conference, he told reporters and U.S. officials he had been wrongly imprisoned for allegedly plotting to kill [[Osama bin Laden]]. He was then taken to a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, where he was stripped, bound and thrown behind bars. According to U.S. lawyers who represent him, in January 2002 he was sent to the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nearly four years later, Turkistani remained there, despite being cleared for release early 2005 after a government review concluded he is "no longer an [[enemy combatant]]." It is unclear exactly when that determination was made, but [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]] lawyers gave notice of it in an 11 October court filing.<ref name="WaPo051215">{{cite news |title=Detainee Cleared for Release Is in Limbo at Guantanamo |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402125.html |date=15 December 2005 <!-- |mirror=http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121505M.shtml --> |access-date=18 December 2005 |newspaper=The Washington Post|first1=Josh |last1=White |first2=Robin |last2=Wright |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919111719/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402125.html |archive-date=19 September 2012 }}</ref> According to a 26 June 2006 press release from the Saudi Arabian embassy,<ref>[http://www.saudiembassy.net/2006News/News/TerDetail.asp?cIndex=6331 Fourteen Guantanamo detainees returned to the Kingdom] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928001128/http://saudiembassy.net/2006News/News/TerDetail.asp?cIndex=6331 |date=28 September 2006 }}, Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington DC, 25 June 2006</ref> Turkistani was released from Guantanamo to Saudi custody.
* In 2002, captured Al Qaeda leader [[Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi]] was rendered to Egypt where he was allegedly tortured. The information he provided to his interrogators formed a fundamental part of the Bush administration case for attacking Iraq, alleging links between Al Qaeda and Iraq. Al-Libi later recanted his story and it is generally believed that his stories of contact between the Saddam Hussein regime and Al-Qaeda were fabricated to please his interrogators.<ref name="Guardian051209">{{cite news | title=Prewar claims 'sourced from rendition detainee' | url=https://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1663743,00.html | access-date=18 December 2005 |work=The Guardian|location=London | date=9 December 2005  | first=Simon | last=Jeffery}}</ref>
* [[Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery]], two Egyptians who had been seeking asylum in Sweden, were arrested by Swedish police in December 2001. They were taken to Bromma airport in Stockholm, had their clothes cut from their bodies, suppositories were inserted in their anuses and they were put in diapers, overalls, hoods, hand and ankle cuffs, they were then put onto a jet with [[Rendition aircraft|American registration N379P]] with a crew of masked men. They were flown to Egypt, where they were imprisoned, beaten, and tortured according to Swedish investigative programme ''Kalla fakta''.<ref>Transcript from a Swedish television show, "''Kalla Fakta''" (Cold Facts) in May 2004 in which the abduction is the topic. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040626072849/http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/17/sweden8620.htm Part 1], [https://web.archive.org/web/20040812093119/http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/24/sweden9219.htm Part 2]</ref> The Swedish ambassador visited them only six weeks later. Agiza was previously charged and sentenced in absentia with being an Islamic militant and was sentenced to 25 years, a sentence that was reduced to 15 years due to the political pressure after the Rendition became known. Al-Zery wasn't charged, and after two years in jail without ever seeing a judge or prosecutor he was sent to his village in Egypt. In 2008 Al-Zery was awarded $500,000 in damages by the Swedish government for the wrongful treatment he received in Sweden and the subsequent torture in Egypt.
* In March 2002, [[Abou Elkassim Britel]], an Italian citizen with Moroccan origins, was arrested in Pakistan and subsequently interrogated by Pakistani and US officials. He was then rendered to Moroccan authorities, detained and tortured in a secret [[Temara interrogation centre]]. He was finally released without any charges brought against him, before being rearrested in May 2003 at the border crossing of the Spanish enclave of [[Melilla]] in North Africa. He is currently imprisoned in [[Äin Bourja prison]] in [[Casablanca]] after having been sentenced to nine years in January 2004 for membership of a subversive organisation and for activities including holding unauthorised meetings. This in spite of conclusions in September 2006 by Italian Justice, after a five years investigation, that there was "an absolute lack of grounds of evidence of charge which may be used in trial" and that the suspicion motivating the inquiries had proved unfounded. Nonetheless, allegations in the Italian press and the judicial proceedings that were underway in Italy influenced court proceedings against Britel in Morocco that led to him being sentenced. MPs from Italy and from the European Parliament are set to ask the [[Moroccan Royal Cabinet]] to grant a pardon to the Italian citizen.{{when|date=June 2015}}<ref>[http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/jan/10britel.htm Renditions: Italian and European MPs set to request pardon for Abou Elkassim Britel], [[Statewatch]], January 2007 {{in lang|en}}</ref> According to the European Parliament ''Temporary Committee on the Alleged Use of European Countries by the CIA for the Transport and the Illegal Detention of Prisoners'' headed by rapporteur [[Giovanni Claudio Fava]], documents demonstrated that "the Italian judicial authorities and the Italian Ministry for Home Affairs (the latter, acting on behalf of the ''Direzione Centrale della Polizia di Prevenzione'' cited in connection with the investigation by the ''Divisione Investigazioni Generali ed Operazioni Speciali'') cooperated constantly with foreign secret services and were well aware of all Britel's movements and whatever unlawful treatments he received, from the time of his initial arrest in Pakistan."<ref name="EP">{{cite web|url= http://www.statewatch.org/news/2007/feb/ep-rendition-and-detention-wd-no-9.pdf |title=Temporary Committee on the Alleged Use of European Countries by the CIA for the Transport and the Illegal Detention of Prisoners }}&nbsp;{{small|(353&nbsp;KB)}}, Rapporteur Giovanni Claudio Fava, [[European Parliament]] DT/65174EN.doc 7 February 2007, made accessible by Statewatch. Retrieved 18 February 2007 {{in lang|en}}</ref>
* In 2003, an Algerian named [[Laid Saidi]] was abducted in Tanzania and taken to Afghanistan, where he was imprisoned and tortured along with Khalid El-Masri.<ref name="NyTimes060707">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/world/africa/07algeria.html?ei=5090&en=17b76be0aba70618&ex=1309924800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all |title=Algerian Tells of Dark Odyssey in U.S. Hands |work=The New York Times |date=7 July 2006 |access-date=7 September 2006 |first1=Craig S. |last1=Smith |first2=Souad |last2=Mekhennet |location=New York City |issn=0362-4331 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408043013/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/world/africa/07algeria.html?ei=5090&en=17b76be0aba70618&ex=1309924800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&_r=1& |archive-date=8 April 2014 |url-status=dead }} ([http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0707-03.htm mirror] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060716034610/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0707-03.htm |date=16 July 2006 }})</ref> His detention appears to have arisen through a mistranslation of a telephone conversation, in which U.S. officials believed he was speaking about airplanes (''tairat'' in Arabic) when he had in fact been speaking about tires (''tirat'' in Arabic).
* [[Binyam Mohammed]], an Ethiopian student who lived in London, was apprehended in Pakistan in April 2002. He allegedly spent three years in "black sites," including in Morocco and Afghanistan. He was supposed to be part of a plot involving [[José Padilla (alleged terrorist)|José Padilla]]. [[The Observer]] reported: "He went to Pakistan in June 2001 because, he says, he had a drug problem and wanted to quit. He was arrested on 10 April at the airport on his way back to England because of an alleged passport irregularity. Initially interrogated by Pakistani and British officials, he told Stafford Smith: "The British checked out my story and said they knew I was a nobody. They said they would tell the Americans." He was deprived of sleep by having heavy rock music played loudly throughout the day and night.<ref name="Talesoftorture" /><ref name="Guardian051211">{{cite news | title=MI6 and CIA 'sent student to Morocco to be tortured' | url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0%2C6903%2C1664612%2C00.html | access-date=18 December 2005 |work=The Guardian|location=London | date=11 December 2005 }}</ref>
* On 13 December 2004, [[Rodrigo Granda]], a FARC terrorist was captured in [[Caracas]], Venezuela by a group of Colombian intelligence officials. Granda was clandestinely transported to the Colombian city of [[Cúcuta]], near the border with Venezuela, where his capture was legalised by the corresponding authorities.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4147631.stm|title=BBC NEWS – Americas – Probe into Colombia rebel arrest|date=5 January 2005|access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1677711 |title=LOS RASTROS QUE DEJÓ LA CAPTURA DE RODRIGO GRANDA EN VENEZUELA |work=eltiempo.com |date=9 January 2005 |access-date=6 February 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218215011/http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1677711 |archive-date=18 December 2014 }}</ref> After the capture of Granda became publicly known, the Venezuelan Government broke relations with Colombia as response of violations to its sovereignty.
* On 5 April 2006, [[Amnesty International]] released details of the United States' system of extraordinary rendition, stating that three Yemeni citizens were held somewhere in Eastern Europe.<ref name="web.amnesty.org.april_2006">{{cite web | title=Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and 'disappearance' | url=http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510512006 | access-date=5 April 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060412013115/http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR510512006 |archive-date = 12 April 2006}}</ref>
* On 21 February 2008, British Foreign Secretary [[David Miliband]] admitted that two United States extraordinary rendition flights refuelled on [[Diego Garcia]] in 2002, and was "very sorry" that earlier denials by British government ministers were having to be corrected.<ref>{{cite news| title=UK apology over rendition flights | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7256587.stm | publisher=BBC News | date=21 February 2008 | access-date=21 February 2008}}</ref>
* The case of [[Mohammed Haydar Zammar]], now a terrorist for ISIL.