USA: Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and 'disappearance'

Index Number: AMR 51/051/2006
Date Published: 4 April 2006
Categories: Americas, USA

In this report Amnesty International brings together critical evidence about the US-led rendition programme. Its recommendations include: the USA should end its practice of renditions; all governments should ensure that rendition victims are protected from torture, and that "war on terror" detainees are charged and given a fair trial, or released; all governments should prohibit the transfer of people to places where they are at risk of ill-treatment; all governments should ensure that their airports and airspace are not being used in renditions; and, all private aircraft operators should refrain from leasing planes where they might be used in renditions.