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The film documents how Rumsfeld, together with the White House legal team, were able to convince Congress to approve the use of torture against prisoners of war. Taxi to the Dark Side is the definitive exploration of the introduction of torture as an interrogation technique in U.S. facilities, and the role played by key figures of the Bush Administration in the process.

Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the "war on terror". Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was considered an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic village. So when he was detained by the U.S military one afternoon, after picking up three passengers, denizens wondered why this man was randomly chosen to be held in prison, and, especially, without trial?

Five days after his arrest Dilawar died in his Bagram prison cell. His death came within a week of another death of a detainee at Bagram. The conclusion, with autopsy evidence, was that the former taxi driver and the detainee who passed away before him, had died due to sustained injuries inflicted at the prison by U.S. soldiers.

The documentary, by award-winning producer Alex Gibney, carefully develops the last weeks of Dilawar’s life and shows how decisions taken at the pinnacle of power in the Bush Administration led directly to Dilawar’s brutal death.. No Trackbacks

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24/10/2007

The new film Rendition dramatises the US president's secret policy of kidnapping and torture.

Petfer Tatchell

The film Rendition, which has opened at cinemas throughout Britain, is a thriller about an innocent Egyptian-American family who fall victim to the US government's criminal policy of "extraordinary rendition" - the kidnapping of people suspected of terrorism, their detention without trial and their torture in secret overseas prisons, so-called "black sites". It is the story of a great democracy bought low by evil men.

Rendition is a fictional drama, not a documentary. But it reflects known facts about rendition - a policy, sanctioned by the US president, which involves the systematic, wilful violation of the US constitution and the Bill of Rights and the rule of law; as well as being illegal under the international laws against kidnapping and torture.

Watch this film. It brings home the lawlessness and inhumanity of the so called war on terror. It reveals why so much of the world hates the hypocrisy
of the US, which preaches liberty but often practises tyranny. It exposes the way the US government is trampling on human rights. It shows why President Bush should be put on trial at the International Criminal Court on charges of kidnapping and torture.

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