ISBN:
0813553121
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9780813553122
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Genocide, political violence, human rights series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
342.7308/2
Keywords:
Geschichte 2001-2008
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LAW / Constitutional
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LAW / Public
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
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Politik
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Extraordinary rendition
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Torture Government policy
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Detention of persons Government policy
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Deportation Government policy
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False imprisonment
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National security
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Extraordinary rendition
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Torture
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Beschuldigter
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Internierung
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Deportation
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Sicherheitspolitik
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Folter
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Freiheitsberaubung
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Auslieferung
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USA
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USA
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USA
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Sicherheitspolitik
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Beschuldigter
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Auslieferung
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Freiheitsberaubung
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Internierung
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Deportation
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Folter
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Geschichte 2001-2008
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction -- - Cultivating a torture culture -- - From Eichmann and Carlos "the Jackal" to Reagan and Clinton -- - Significant U.S. renditions to torture -- - State secrets privilege trumps justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan -- - The illegality of the Iraq War and how rendition sparked it -- - European and Canadian complicity in rendition and torture
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Many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Extraordinary rendition-sending people captured in the "war on terror" to nations long counted among the world's worst human rights violators-hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations. In Rendition to Torture, Alan W. Clarke explains how the United States adopted torture as a matter of offici
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