Such "ghost detainees" are kept outside judicial oversight, often without ever entering US territory, and may or may not ultimately be transferred to the custody of the United States. [161], In November 2005, Spanish newspaper El País reported that CIA planes had landed in the Canary Islands and in Palma de Mallorca. Dick Marty himself has not accepted such a dualistic approach, as he showed that for the British government also, the phenomenon of Islamic terrorism was alleged to be so grave that the balance of liberties had to be reconsidered. [167] In December 2001 Swedish police detained Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al-Zery, two Egyptians who had been seeking asylum in Sweden. "In a resolution passed on 14 February 2007 MEPs approved by a large majority (382 voting in favour, 256 against and 74 abstaining) their committee's final report, which criticized the rendition program and concluded that many European countries tolerated illegal CIA activities including secret flights over their territories. L'iter Processuale si è concluso il 19 settembre 2012 dinanzi alla Corte di Cassazione italiana che ha condannato definitivamente 23 agenti americani Cia (tra cui Robert Seldon Lady) per pene dai sette ai nove anni di reclusione, così come Pio Pompa e Luciano Seno (ex funzionari del Sismi) a due anni e otto mesi di reclusione; ha inoltre annullato con rinvio per un nuovo processo d'appello le sentenze pronunciate nei confronti di Nicolò Pollari e Marco Mancini, ex vertici del Sismi che erano stati dichiarati non processabili per via del segreto di stato[9]. Extraordinary Rendition Laid Saidi, an Algerian detained and tortured along with El-Masri, was apprehended apparently because of a taped telephone conversation in which the word tirat, meaning "tires" in Arabic, was mistaken for the word tairat, meaning "airplanes".[112]. [135][142] In Germany, unlike Italy, defendants cannot be tried in absentia. Ireland has been censured by the European Parliament for its role in facilitating extraordinary rendition and taking insufficient or no measures to uphold its obligations under the UN CAT. He confirmed that, in a separate programme run by the CIA, some suspected terrorists were held in secret locations outside the United States and interrogated using an "alternative set of procedures". [35], The Reagan administration did not undertake this kidnapping lightly. [87] Just after the 2006 Italian general elections, Roberto Castelli (Lega Nord), outgoing Justice Minister, declared to Italian prosecutors that he had not passed the extradition request to the US. They were to be centered on the issue of "torture or inhuman and cruel treatment," and instigated by allegations of "illegal activities and serious human rights violations" made by MEP Ana Gomes to the attorney general, Pinto Monteiro, on 26 January 2007. The UK has signed and ratified the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel Inhuman Degrading Treatment or Punishment. On 18 September 2006, a Canadian public enquiry presented its findings, entirely clearing Arar of any terrorist activities. In a resolution and recommendation approved by a large majority, the Assembly also called for: The European Parliament launched its own investigation into the reports. Overall, the executive order calls for more oversight of interrogation by third parties, but does not end extraordinary rendition. He was heading home to Canada after a family holiday in Tunisia. This instruction was opened following a complaint deposed in December 2005 by the Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH) NGO ("Human Rights League") and the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) NGO on charges of "arbitrary detention", "crime of torture" and "non-respect of the rights of war prisoners". [83] He was transported on a Learjet (using the call sign SPAR 92) to Ramstein, Germany. 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We don't know whether Zaafir ever managed to get his life back together. Il 28 febbraio gli Stati Uniti hanno dichiarato ufficialmente che non concederanno l'estradizione chiesta dal Ministero della giustizia italiano per i 26 agenti della CIA accusati del rapimento. The musical signature owes much to the diversity of the five-piece band, fronted by the eponymous and exotic Rupa Marya, along with the intensely woven but lightly worn reciprocity of their playing. Somewhere in Eastern Europe is suspected. On 25 November 2005, the lead investigator for the Council of Europe, Swiss lawmaker Dick Marty announced that he had obtained latitude and longitude coordinates for suspected black sites, and he was planning to use satellite imagery over the last several years as part of his investigation. The Council concluded in its report that extraordinary rendition, The French attorney general of Bobigny opened up an instruction in order "to verify the presence in Le Bourget Airport, on 20 July 2005, of the plane numbered N50BH." In many cases these detainees are transferred to secret detention or to a third country for the purposes of interrogation, often in circumstances where they face a real risk of torture.