”Rendition” Case Takes a New Twist

[aikido15]

RIGHTS-US:
”Rendition” Case Takes a New Twist

William Fisher


NEW YORK, Feb 14 (IPS) - The U.S. Department of Justice may make legal history in seeking to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of a U.S. citizen being held in Saudi Arabia without publicly disclosing its reasons, citing an ”extraordinarily high” government interest in protecting national security issues in the case.

Other instances in which courts based their decisions on ”secret information” have dealt with denial of a job or pilot's license. This case is about a man's freedom.

The citizen is Ahmed Abu Ali, a 23-year-old student who was arrested in Saudi Arabia in June 2003 while taking an exam at the University of Medina, and has since been held in a Saudi prison without charge or access to legal counsel.

Saudi authorities claim they have no case against Ali, and that his detention is at the behest of the U.S. government. The U.S. government responds it had nothing to do with his arrest or imprisonment, but has declined to publicly produce any evidence to document this claim.

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=27435

[Redstone]

1. A new tactic...

leave them to rot in a Saudi prison where nobody will notice (they thought), thereby avoiding the publicity that (finally) is shing a light on the Gitmo Gulag.

These people get more like the SOBs who used to run Soviet Russia every day.

Redstone

[teryang]

2. judicial outsourcing

...forum shopping at its worst. These people have no ethics. They are ruthless.

Liberty....don't make me laugh.

[struggle4progress]

3. kick