extraordinary rendition

American  

noun

1. secret or forcible rendition of a suspected criminal to another country, often a country known to violate human rights and due process of law.

   the CIA’s extraordinary rendition of terrorist suspects;

   The legality and morality of extraordinary rendition have been a matter of intense debate.

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extraordinary rendition British  

noun

1. the process by which a country seizes a person assumed to be involved in terrorist activity and then transports him or her for interrogation to a country where due process of law is unlikely to be respected

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Etymology

Origin of extraordinary rendition

First recorded in 1980–85

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extraordinary rendition

Even during wartime, things like kidnapping and extraordinary rendition violate U.S. law, the Geneva Conventions, and other international humanitarian treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory.

From Salon ● May 6, 2025

Kingsley Kanu's lawyers argue that Britain's Foreign Office should reach "a firm, rather than provisional, view" on whether his brother was the victim of extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria.

From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2022

Beauty is reserved here for the sounds emanating from Pimentel’s captivating Maria and the extraordinary rendition of “Maria” that Powell performs.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2020

Apart from the enhanced interrogation and extraordinary rendition aspects of what she did, does her experience, résumé, and comportment argue for her, or against her, to lead the CIA?

From Slate ● May 9, 2018

UK citizens' data has effectively been subjected to a form of extraordinary rendition.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2013

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