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They continue lawlessly. Despite efforts to conceal information, it "continue(s) to find its way into the public domain."
Victims' rights in America are denied. Challenging complicit governments "are being heard in courts around the world."
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Macedonia's involvement violated Khaled el-Masri's rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. His ill-treatment amounted to torture.
Italy's highest court upheld convictions of US and complicit Italian officials. It did so for their involvement in extraordinarily renditioning Abu Omar to Egypt.
The UN Convention against Torture prohibits "refoulement." It pertains to "expelling, returning, or extraditing a person to another country where there are substantial grounds to believe he (or she) would be in danger of being tortured."A former CIA agent once said:
"If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear, you send them to Egypt."
Many other countries operate the same way. They include America, Western allies, Israel, and other Middle East nations. They operate extrajudicially, unchecked and unaccountably.
Other legal challenges continue. They're ongoing against Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Italy, Djibouti, Egypt, Hong Kong and Britain.
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