Extraordinary Rendition: When Assad’s Horrific Prisons were the CIA’s Dumping Ground

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Globalizing Torture, a report published by the Open Society Justice Initiative, provides the names of 136 detainees who were subjected to extraordinary rendition or secret detention. Of those detainees, at least eight were sent by the CIA to Assad’s jails.

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Source – constantinereport.com

– “…Globalizing Torture,” a report published by the Open Society Justice Initiative, provides the names of 136 detainees who were subjected to extraordinary rendition or secret detention. Of those detainees, at least eight were sent by the CIA to Assad’s jails”:

(When Assad’s Horrific Prisons were the CIA’s Dumping Ground – By David Kenner)

As Secretary of State John Kerry delivered his opening remarks at the Syria peace talks in Switzerland on Wednesday, he expressed outrage at new revelations of the brutal tactics perpetrated by President Bashar Assad’s regime.

Evidence of the execution of thousands of Syrians in Assad’s prisons, Kerry said, represented “an appalling assault, not only on human lives, but on human dignity and on every standard by which the international community tries to organize itself.”

Kerry was referring to a report released this week based on the testimony of a defector within the Syrian…

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