black site

American  

[blak sahyt] / ˈblæk ˈsaɪt /

noun

1. a location that is never publicly acknowledged as existing, where secret military and defense operations, including the detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists, are conducted out of reach of the law and normal systems of oversight.

   Thailand was likely the first country to host a CIA black site, where suspected 9/11 terrorists were detained.

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black site British  

noun

1. a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government

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Etymology

Origin of black site

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Lawyers say instead it has become a “black site,” holding immigrants for days or weeks in squalid and unsanitary conditions without access to legal counsel.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cristian Farias, a courts reporter for Vanity Fair, told Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick that “to file a habeas petition is basically what ensures that you won’t be sent to a black site or put in a prison without ever getting out.”

From Slate

To file a habeas petition is basically what ensures that you won’t be sent to a black site or put in a prison without ever getting out.

From Slate

He accused the probation department of running a “black site” at Los Padrinos and demanded officials communicate more clearly with overdose victims families and their attorneys.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Hadi, 63, was one of the last prisoners to be held in the overseas black site network where the George W. Bush administration held and interrogated about 100 terrorism suspects after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

From New York Times