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Italty court rules Berlusconi can be called to testify in CIA rendition case
May 14, 2008
[JURIST] Italian Judge Oscar Magi ruled on Wednesday that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] can be called to testify in the trial of of 26 Americans [JURIST news archive] and several former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition.... [more] 
Berlusconi testimony sought in defense of Italy ex-spy chief in CIA rendition case
April 16, 2008
[JURIST] Lawyers for former Italian Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) [official website] chief Nicolo Pollari said Wednesday that they have included Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile] as a requested witness to testify in support of Pollari's assertion that he was.... [more]
HRW: CIA transferred terror suspects to Jordan as part of rendition program
April 9, 2008
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] accused the CIA Tuesday of transferring terror suspects to Jordan [report; press release] following September 11, saying that the US sent them there for interrogations as part of the CIA's rendition program [JURIST news archive]. HRW reported that at.... [more]
Supreme Court rules for Delaware in state water boundary dispute
March 31, 2008
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] ruled Monday that New Jersey and Delaware have "overlapping authority" to control "extraordinary" construction projects along the Delaware River. The Court's decision came in New Jersey v. Delaware [Medill case backgrounder;.... [more]
Italy judge orders CIA rendition trial to resume
March 19, 2008
[JURIST] Italian Judge Oscar Magi on Wednesday ordered the continuation of the trial of 26 Americans [JURIST news archive] and several former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition [JURIST news archive] of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [JURIST news.... [more]
Former CIA 'ghost detainee' describes interrogation abuses in Amnesty report
March 14, 2008
[JURIST] A former CIA "ghost detainee" [JURIST news archive] detailed torture and abuse by agency interrogators at Iraq's Abu Ghraib [JURIST news archive] prison and a secret CIA facility in Afghanistan in an Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] report [text] released Friday. Khaled Abdu.... [more]
CIA rendition flights refueled on UK Indian Ocean island: UK foreign secretary
February 21, 2008
[JURIST] UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband [official profile; BBC profile] said Thursday that two US planes landed on the UK territory of Diego Garcia in 2002 to refuel during extraordinary rendition flights [JURIST news archive]. Miliband apologized [text].... [more]
UK control orders should not exceed 2 years: terror law ombudsman
February 18, 2008
[JURIST] Control orders [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] imposing restrictions on uncharged suspects under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 [UK Home Office materials] should not exceed two years in duration except under extraordinary circumstances, the UK's counter-terrorism law.... [more]
Federal court dismisses lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary over CIA rendition role
February 14, 2008
[JURIST] The US District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; case materials] against Jeppesen Dataplan [corporate website] Wednesday, ruling in favor of the US government's motion to dismiss on state secret grounds. The US Department of Justice had.... [more]
DOJ urges judge to dismiss lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary over CIA rendition role
February 6, 2008
[JURIST] US District Judge James Ware of the US District Court for the Northern District of California heard arguments Tuesday on the government's motion to dismiss [JURIST report] a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan [corporate website] on state secrets grounds. The Justice Department argued that.... [more]
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