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Globalizing Torture: CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition , Amrit Singh. Open Society Foundations, 2013, pp. 216 (ISBN: 978-1-936133-75-8).

01 March 2013

This important report investigates human rights abuses committed by the CIA as part of its secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It presents information on 136 known victims of the CIA’s illegal torture (“enhanced interrogation technique”) programme. The report notes with “significant concern” that the US officials responsible for authorising these human rights violations have enjoyed impunity from prosecution, but also observes that the programme could not have been conducted without the complicity and cooperation of foreign governments such as Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Saudi-Arabia, Algeria, Albania, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe and other dictatorships. Globalising Torture also documents collusion by European countries (such as the United Kingdom, Poland, Belgium, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Denmark) and their allies (Canada and Australia) who gave active and logistical support in assisting the CIA in delivering suspects for “special treatment.” Not a single US official has been held accountable for their illegal actions. Regarding the CIA’s collaborators, Canada, Sweden, Australia, and the UK have issued compensation to some of the victims but the officials and intelligence agents who colluded in the torture programme are apparently beyond the reach of the law.