Außerordentliche Überstellung
Als außerordentliche Überstellung wurde ein Programm des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes CIA im Rahmen des Krieges gegen den Terror bezeichnet. Ein prominenter Fall war derjenige des ehemaligen Mailänder Imams Abu Omar.
- "Extraordinary rendition was what the United States was the transportation of those suspected of some kind of involvement, even if small, in terrorist acts. The United States could not use its own territory to engage in many of the acts carried out in order to get information out of detainees or detain people indefinitely due to Habeas Corpus. But other countries could so the job was outsourced. As one official put it “We don’t kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them” (Helling 2013).
A new report by the Open Society Foundations Justice Initiative shows that there is evidence that more than a quarter of the world’s governments covertly offered support for these renditions, a shockingly high figure that shows the willingness of governments to kowtow to the United States demands during the war on terror. In many cases countries equally wanted themselves to end the threat of terrorism and were willing to bend the rules, or in some cases shred them, in order to help achieve this. Of course there were dramatically varying levels of cooperation and some states may not have known what they were cooperating with but the report’s authors state “Secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations, designed to be conducted outside the United States under cover of secrecy, could not have been implemented without the active participation of foreign governments. These governments too must be held accountable”.
Weblinks
- Macklin, Audrey (2008) From Cooperation, to Complicity, to Compensation: The War on Terror, Extraordinary Rendition, and the Cost of Torture, in: Euro Journ of Migration and Law. Abstract: Attention has turned recently to the human rights implications of Western states' cooperation with the United States in the so-called War on Terror. This paper presents the ordeal of Canadian Maher Arar as a case-study in how one state responded to contentions of complicity in the extraordinary rendition of one of its nationals. Relying in part on faulty intelligence supplied by Canada, Arar was rendered by the United States to Syria. He was imprisoned and tortured for almost a year before Canada secured his release. Under considerable public pressure, the Canadian government appointed an independent public inquiry to examine the events surrounding his rendition. Following the release of the report and its recommendations, the Canadian government formally apologized to Arar and paid him substantial compensation. The author provides an account of the function performed by independent public inquiries in responding to public calls for government accountability in face of alleged wrongdoing. The paper describes the challenge posed by competing demands for publicity and secrecy in the particular context of controversial actions taken in the name of national security. Finally the author considers the precedential value of the Arar Inquiry for other jurisdictions that face similar allegations regarding complicity in human rights violations, as well as the task of devising a fair and reasonably open process against claims of national security confidentiality.