Case studies

The Marty report cites 17 individual cases of rendition:

The Marty report cites 17 individual cases of rendition:

  • Khaled el-Masri: A German of Lebanese origin, Masri was arrested in Macedonia at the end of 2003. The report backs his account that he was handed over to CIA agents, flown to Afghanistan and jailed for months as a terrorist suspect before being released without charge in May 2004. He is trying, so far without success, to sue the former head of the CIA for abduction and torture.
  • The "Algerian Six": Lakhdar Boumediene, Mohamed Nechle, Hadj Boudella, Belkacem Bensayah, Mustafa Ait Idir and Saber Lahmar, six Bosnians of Algerian origin, were arrested in October 2001, suspected of having planned bomb attacks on the US and British embassies.

Although prosecutors found no evidence, the report says they were handed over to the US military in Bosnia in January 2002 and flown to the US detention at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, where they remain.

  • Ahmed Agiza and Mohammed Alzery: The two Egyptian men were deported from Sweden in December 2001. The report said they were handed over at a Swedish airport to hooded US agents who cut off their clothes with scissors, dressed them in tracksuits, checked every body aperture, handcuffed them and shackled their feet and flew them to Egypt, where there is evidence they were later tortured.
  • Abu Omar: The Muslim cleric was abducted in broad daylight in Milan, Italy, in June 2003 and flown via US air bases in Italy and Germany to Egypt, where he was tortured before being released and rearrested, the report says. Italian prosecutors have accused 22 CIA agents of kidnapping him.
  • Bisher Al-Rawi and Jamil El-Banna: Both permanent residents of Britain, they were arrested in Gambia in November 2002 on the basis of information supplied by British domestic intelligence MI5, the report says. They were questioned by CIA and Gambian agents before being flown the next month to Afghanistan and later to Guantánamo, where they remain.
  • Maher Arar: A Canadian citizen of Syrian origin, he was arrested during an airport stopover in New York in September 2002, interrogated for two weeks and then is alleged to have been transported via Washington, Rome and Amman, to a prison of Syrian military intelligence.

He spent more than 10 months there, during which time he says he was tortured, abused and forced to make false confessions.

  • Muhammad Bashmila and Salah Ali Qaru: Arrested in Jordan in 2003, they are alleged to have been held in at least four secret US detention centres, probably in three different countries. Amnesty International says there is evidence that they and a third man, Muhammad al-Assad, were at one time held in a US prison in eastern Europe.
  • Mohammed Zammar: An German- Syrian man, suspected of involvement with the Hamburg cell of al-Qaeda, was arrested in Morocco in late 2001 and is alleged to have been flown to Syria on a CIA-linked aircraft, the report says.

German security officials have visited him in a Syrian prison.

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  • Binyam Mohamed al Habashi: An Ethiopian citizen, resident in Britain since 1994, was arrested in Pakistan in April 2002 and interrogated by Pakistani, American and British agents before being handed over to the United States, the report says.

It says he has been held at secret detention facilities in Morocco and Afghanistan and is now in Guantánamo. He says he has been severely tortured during his captivity.