| Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the "War on Terror" |
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| Produced By:
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WITNESS with 14 production and distribution partners
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| Produced In:
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USA, 2005
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| Running Time:
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27 min
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| Genre:
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Documentary
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| Language:
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English
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| Themes:
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USA, "War On Terror" , Civil Liberties
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| Distributor:
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WITNESS
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Synopsis:
Human rights groups and several public inquiries in Europe have found the U.S. government, with the complicity of numerous governments worldwide, to be engaged in the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture. The U.S. government-sponsored program of renditions is an unlawful practice in which numerous persons have been illegally detained and secretly flown to third countries, where they have suffered additional human rights abuses including torture and enforced disappearance. No one knows the exact number of persons affected, due to the secrecy under which the operations are carried out.
Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the "War on Terror" corroborates these findings through the harrowing stories of Khaled El-Masri and Binyam Mohamed, two men who have suffered as a result of the U.S. government's disregard of the international legal instruments dealing with respect for fundamental rights. The film features commentary from Louise Arbour, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael Scheuer, the chief architect of the rendition program and former head of the Osama Bin Laden unit at the CIA, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. President George W. Bush. Outlawed places the post-9/11 phenomenon of renditions and the "war on terror" in a human rights context for use on a global level in advocacy, education, and mobilization.
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Links:
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Visit the WITNESS homepage for the film to view excerpts of the video, background information, online action tools and links to relevant resources.
Read about recent Human Rights Watch Work
on the torture and abuse of U.S. detainees
Read about the American Civil Liberties Union landmark court case to receive information about detainee abuse at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. This website "Keeping America Free" has tons of ideas for teachers, links and action resources.
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