A Yemeni man kidknapped by the Egyptian authorities was rendered to the US for indefinite detention at Guantanamo. All of this of course avoided the rule of law, and this is one of ten cases.
Full story: Al Jazeera: http://tinyurl.com/3qhjm
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Also reported on ABC (Australia): http://tinyurl.com/3ttz8
Reverse rendition
In an unrelated development, another US rights group - Human Rights Watch - has also released a report concerning a Yemeni intelligence officer who was kidnapped by Egyptian authorities in Cairo in 2002.
He was then sent to US jails in Afghanistan and Cuba entirely outside the rule of law, HRW said on Tuesday.
The watchdog called the case of Abd al-Salam Ali al-Hila a "reverse rendition", a twist on the US government practice of rendering certain prisoners to third nations for interrogation and, in the view of rights activists, torture.
Al-Hila was the latest of about 10 known cases of men seized by other countries not on a battlefield and handed over to the US for indefinite detention as an "enemy combatant" without legal process, according to HRW military affairs researcher John Sifton.
"One thing that we're trying to point to here is the way in which these reverse renditions occur entirely outside the rule of law," Sifton said. There had been no extradition process, no criminal suspicion based on probable cause, and no ability to challenge the detention, he said.
"These renditions result in people disappearing," Sifton added. "Is this man dangerous? Perhaps. But the point is he should be given an opportunity to challenge his detention."
This is just beyond belief.