If shipping prisoners from countries where there is some daylight to countries where there is little or none is a perfectly legal practice, how will a person who finds himself in a place like Bagram get to a judge?
A recent survey demonstrated the availability of some variables relevant to TOM analysis of vulnerable subgroups in the EU/EEA in a reasonable number of member states, such as prisoners (17 countries) and asylum-seekers, drug addicts, alcoholics, undocumented persons and immunesuppressed patients (10 14 countries) [ 45].
Rendition sends prisoners to countries the State Department criticizes for human rights abuses.
Beyond the moral rot it signals, the rendition of prisoners to countries that can torture them has practical consequences.
Washington should reject them and should refuse to hand over prisoners to countries that routinely use torture.
The sentences have provoked outrage from the prisoners' home countries, none of which hands down the death penalty to drug offenders.
The Administration has cut deals where it can, releasing prisoners to countries like Estonia (which took one person in the last fiscal year) or Uruguay (which took six).
It would also outlaw secret detentions, used since 2001 by the Central Intelligence Agency, and prohibit the transfer of prisoners to countries that use torture or cruel treatment.
Human rights advocates condemned the decision, saying that continuing the practice, known as rendition, would still allow the transfer of prisoners to countries with a history of torture.
Panetta suggested the president will only transfer prisoners to countries with good human rights records, and where there is a US diplomatic presence to monitor their treatment.
Obama also asserts his right to hand over the prisoners to countries that commit torture, provided they give a written "assurance" they won't be "abused" – assurances that have proved worthless in the past.
