Rendering or rendition involves sending a person from one country to another for imprisonment and interrogation, probably by methods such as torture.
Rendition
Rendition
Rendition
Individuals have claimed to be flown to countries where they were tortured ©Rendering or rendition involves sending a person from one country to another for imprisonment and interrogation, probably by methods such as torture, that would be illegal in the country doing the rendering.
It's been alleged that US intelligence agencies have used the process of 'extraordinary rendition', to send terror suspects for interrogation by security officials in other countries, where they have no legal protection or rights under American law.
Some individuals have claimed they were flown by the CIA to countries like Syria and Egypt, where they were tortured.
The US government and its intelligence agencies maintain that all their operations are conducted within the law.
US officials do not deny that terror suspects have been transferred for interrogation in other countries, but reject accusations that they are being tortured when they get there. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that all American interrogators are bound by the UN Convention on Torture, whether they work in the US or abroad.
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