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extraordinary rendition
noun
- secret or forcible rendition of a suspected criminal to another country, often a country known to violate human rights and due process of law:
the CIA’s extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects;
The legality and morality of extraordinary rendition have been a matter of intense debate.
extraordinary rendition
noun
- the process by which a country seizes a person assumed to be involved in terrorist activity and then transports him or her for interrogation to a country where due process of law is unlikely to be respected
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of extraordinary rendition1
Example Sentences
The closest parallel I can think of is the infamous post-9/11 extraordinary rendition program, which already rested on incredibly shaky ground and did not involve people removed from the United States itself.
Or, as a student with an American flag and a Jews 4 Civil Liberties sign said of the chant: “I don’t love sharing a foxhole with them. But you’d like there to be a big tent for the extraordinary rendition of journalists.”
It was called "Extraordinary Rendition" and what was so extraordinary about it was that it required no due process.
Those secrets revealed "dark ops" like torture, extraordinary rendition, mass domestic surveillance and drone assassinations.
The lack of any ordered system means critical evidence is being lost each day at sites across Syria – information about the missing, but also potentially, any links between Assad's regime and foreign governments like the US or the UK, both of which have been accused of benefitting from the American policy of extraordinary rendition, in which terrorist suspects were sent for interrogation to countries that used torture.
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