An Amnesty International Report released this week calls for a break in the conspiracy of silence surrounding Europe's complicity in CIA-driven torture and extraordinary renditions. The European Court's pointed questions to the Macedonian government in Khaled El-Masri's case may well prove to be the catalyst for such a...

The United States Supreme Court continues to close its doors to victims of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. This week, the court declined to review Maher Arar's case, just as it did in 2007 for Khaled El-Masri. But Europe's top human rights court remains open for justice.

El-Masri, a...

The Justice Department’s release last week of Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos was an important step towards exposing past abuses of executive power and restoring government transparency. But still lingering out there, attracting much less attention, yet just as crucial for us to see, are still-secret photos of...

This past Memorial Day, Sameh Khouzam celebrated the holiday like many Americans -- by spending the day with friends in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where he lives and works as a controller of a real estate company. The next morning, he went to the York County Jail for a routine check-in...