Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency embarked on a highly classified program of secret detention and extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects. The program was designed to place detainee interrogations beyond the reach of law. Suspected terrorists were seized and secretly flown across national borders to be interrogated by foreign governments that used torture, or by the CIA itself in clandestine “black sites” using torture techniques.
Globalizing Torture is the most comprehensive account yet assembled of the human rights abuses associated with CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It details for the first time what was done to the 136 known victims, and lists the 54 foreign governments that participated in these operations. It shows that responsibility for the abuses lies not only with the United States but with dozens of foreign governments that were complicit.
More than 10 years after the 2001 attacks, Globalizing Torture makes it unequivocally clear that the time has come for the United States and its partners to definitively repudiate these illegal practices and secure accountability for the associated human rights abuses.
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Sveriges radio Studio Ett 17-timmen:
Samarbetena har handlat om allt från tortyr, olagliga utlämningar och hemliga amerikanska fängelser ill underrättelseinformation. Men varför valde så många länder att gå USA till mötes? Och vilka konsekvenser har det globala kriget mot terrorismen fått? Sten Sjöström, Sveriges Radios New York-korrespondent, Europarådets kommissionär för mänskliga rättigheter, Thomas Hammarberg och Magnus Norell, forskare med inriktning på säkerhetsfrågor vid bland annat Washington Institute for Near East Policy medverkar. 17-timmen
