In this document, Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists make submissions on: A) knowledge imputable to Contracting Parties at relevant times; B) the rendition and secret detention programme involved multiple egregious breaches of Contracting Parties’ Convention obligations; C) state responsibility for co-operation in the rendition and secret detention programme; D) non-refoulement obligations under the Convention; E) state responsibility for renditions and post-transfer violations.