What is a rendition flight?
What is a rendition flight?
Rendition aircraft are aircraft used by national governments to move prisoners internationally, a practice known as rendition, the illegal version of which is referred to as extraordinary rendition.
What are rendition protocols?
20 Extraordinary Facts about CIA Extraordinary Rendition and Secret Detention. Extraordinary rendition is the transfer—without legal process—of a detainee to the custody of a foreign government for purposes of detention and interrogation. The program was intended to protect America.
When did extraordinary rendition start?
Covert extraordinary rendition began as a systematic tactic on September 22, 1995, with the capture of terrorist Abu Talal al-Qasimi in Croatia; he was later transferred to Egypt for execution.
Where does the movie rendition take place?
Plot. In North Africa, CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) briefs an agent.
What is an example of a rendition flight?
Rendition Flights. The secret prisons in which individuals were held and tortured by the CIA and its counterterrorism allies did not exist in isolation from one another. Rather, they formed part of a global network of detention facilities, connected to one another through hundreds of ‘rendition flights’ by civilian aircraft,…
What is the rendition project?
The Rendition Project has worked with a number of organisations to compile the world’s largest public database of aircraft and companies associated with the RDI programme, and to track the movement of CIA aircraft as they travelled between secret prisons. The Flight Database currently contains flight data on over 120 US-registered…
What is Amnesty’s Rendition report about?
The report describes how the CIA has used private aircraft operators and front companies to preserve the secrecy of “rendition” flights. The Amnesty rendition report is entitled Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and ‘disappearance’.
