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Eugene

(61,914 posts) Thu Dec 13, 2012, 12:24 PM Dec 2012

Europe court award for rendition victim Khaled al-Masri

Source: BBC

13 December 2012 Last updated at 15:27 GMT

The European Court of Human Rights has awarded a German citizen compensation after finding he was an innocent victim of extraordinary rendition by the CIA.

It ordered Macedonia to pay Khaled al-Masri 60,000 euros (£48,000; $78,000) for arresting him and handing him over to the Americans in December 2003.

He spent five months in secret CIA jails for suspected Islamist militants.

The verdict is a major victory for Mr Masri who has struggled to clear his name in the US and Germany.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20712615

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Europe court award for rendition victim Khaled al-Masri (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2012 OP

CIA 'tortured and sodomised' terror suspect, European court rules Eugene Dec 2012 #1

Wow, that is some sharp language. bemildred Dec 2012 #2

... Solly Mack Dec 2012 #4

K&R Solly Mack Dec 2012 #3

We have monsters in our government. Torture and sodomy by the CIA. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2012 #5

K&R (nt) muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 #6

Shamefully, the US courts tossed out his case on "national security" grounds struggle4progress Dec 2012 #7

Eugene

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1. CIA 'tortured and sodomised' terror suspect, European court rules

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 01:06 PM

Dec 2012

Source: The Guardian

CIA 'tortured and sodomised' terror suspect, European court rules

Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 December 2012 16.02 GMT

CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him, as Macedonian state police looked on, the European court of human rights said in a historic judgment released on Thursday.

In a unanimous ruling, it also found Macedonia guilty of torturing, abusing, and secretly imprisoning Khaled el-Masri, a German of Lebanese origin allegedly linked to terrorist organisations.

Masri was seized in Macedonia in December 2003 and handed over to a CIA "rendition team" at Skopje airport and secretly flown to Afghanistan.

It is the first time the court has described CIA treatment meted out to terror suspects as torture.

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bemildred

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2. Wow, that is some sharp language.

Reply to Eugene (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 01:12 PM

Dec 2012

UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, described the ruling as "a key milestone in the long struggle to secure accountability of public officials implicated in human rights violations committed by the Bush administration CIA in its policy of secret detention, rendition and torture".

He said the US government must issue an apology for its "central role in a web of systematic crimes and human rights violations by the Bush-era CIA, and to pay voluntary compensation to Mr el-Masri".

Germany should ensure that the US officials involved in this case are now brought to trial.