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Monday, August 24, 2009

Extraordinary Rendition for … White-collar Criminals?

Opponents of the practice of extraordinary rendition are growing increasingly vocal about the case of Raymond Azar, a Lebanese construction contractor who was picked up by the FBI on allegations of bribery, shackled, blindfolded and flown to the United States for trial.

Azar pleaded guilty last week in a US federal court to conspiracy to commit bribery, and faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Yet human rights groups and government watchdogs are growing increasingly alarmed by what they see as the adoption of “extraordinary rendition” practices to crimes that don’t involve terrorism.

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