And there has been no justice for the victims of torture, illegal rendition, warrantless eavesdropping and indefinite detention.
Among them is the UK which, it has been claimed, provided assistance to the CIA in the illegal rendition of Abdelhakim Belhadj, an anti-Gaddafi rebel leader who was returned to Libya reportedly via CIA custody.
Bless him for that, though an oddity is the interview's (entirely legal) avoidance of mentioning the charge that Jack colluded in the illegal rendition and torture of terrorist suspects.
A Libyan politician who claims the UK Government was involved in his and his pregnant wife's illegal rendition, torture and mistreatment is to have his case heard at the Court of Appeal today.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the first detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay detention camps, where the open-mesh and barbed-wire cells became synonymous with the abuse of human rights and the scandal of illegal rendition.
"It seems that Putin was so angry at me for getting the Magnitsky Act passed that he's instructed his special services to use all possible channels to get me back to Russia, including Interpol and illegal rendition," said Browder.
As the late Norman Mackenzie pointed out in Fallen Eagle, his book on the capture of Napoleon, the deposed emperor was an early victim of a British policy of illegal rendition.
In the action, they accuse MI5 of having a 'causative role' in both men's ordeals, stating it was 'complicit' in the illegal rendition and guilty of an 'abuse of power'.
In a 35-page outline of their case against extradition, released on the WikiLeaks Web site, Mr. Assange's lawyers said, "It is submitted that there is a real risk that, if extradited to Sweden, the United States will seek his extradition and/or illegal rendition to the U.S.A., where there will be a real risk of him being detained at Guantánamo Bay or elsewhere".
He also said that there was little prospect that Mr. Assange would be extradited from Sweden to the United States, where the Justice Department is seeking to determine whether it can bring charges against him, or subjected to "illegal rendition," as the defense has asserted.
