CIA renditions 'aided by 54 countries'

As many as 54 countries have been complicit in CIA's extraordinary rendition operations in which terrorism suspects were held in secret prisons overseas or turned over to foreign governments for interrogation, a human rights organisation has said in a report. The report, released on Tuesday, claims that foreign governments in Europe, Asia and Africa have been secretly involved in global kidnap, detention and torture of at least 136 people on behalf of the United States after September 11, 2001 attacks. "By engaging in torture and other abuses associated with secret detention and extraordinary rendition, the US government violated domestic and international law, thereby...