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European Court Schedules Landmark Ruling on CIA Rendition Case
The European Court of Human Rights will deliver its judgment on December 13 in a landmark case addressing Macedonia's role in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's programe of extraordinary rendition.
December 11, 2012New Report Documents Counterterrorism and Human Rights Abuses in Kenya and Uganda
Civil society groups in East Africa have joined the Open Society Justice Initiative in calling on the governments of Kenya and Uganda to end a pattern of human rights abuses associated with their counterterrorism efforts.
November 26, 2012European Court Once Again Demands Answers on CIA Black Sites, This Time from Romania
Romania is the second European country to face scrutiny from the European Court of Human Rights for hosting a secret CIA prison.
October 09, 2012European Court Wants Answers from Poland in CIA Black Site Case
The European Court of Human Rights is pressing Poland for information and documents in the case of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi national who was imprisoned and tortured at a secret CIA detention center on its soil.
July 16, 2012Wall of Silence over CIA Abuse Faces European Court Challenge
The case of a German citizen wrongly seized in Macedonia and abused by the CIA in 2004 will be heard by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg on Wednesday, May 16.
May 10, 2012CIA Rendition Case Heads to Europe's Top Human Rights Judges
The case of a German citizen who was mistakenly seized in Macedonia and shipped in secret to Afghanistan for interrogation is to be heard on May 16 by the 17 judges of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.
March 30, 2012Mistaken Identity, Rendition and Abuse: CIA Case Before Europe’s Top Court
The case of a German citizen who was mistakenly seized in Macedonia and shipped in secret to Afghanistan for interrogation is to be heard on May 16 by the 17 judges of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights.
February 07, 2012European Court Must Respond to Death Penalty for Guantanamo Case
Poland should be urged to intervene against a possible death penalty in the planned military trial of a defendant tortured on its soil.
September 28, 2011