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June 10, 2016

CIA Rendition Victims Speak Out After British Prosecutors Clear MI6 Officers in Torture Case
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British prosecutors have announced no charges will be brought against
MI6 officials who took part in a joint CIA operation targeting a Libyan
dissident and his wife. In 2004, Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and his pregnant
wife were secretly detained at a secret CIA prison in Thailand and then
rendered to Libya, where they were jailed and tortured in one of Muammar
Gaddafi's prisons. Belhaj's wife Fatima Boudchar spoke to the BBC.

Fatima Boudchar: "My hands and legs were tied, and my eyes were covered.
They injected me with something. I didn't know where I was going. I was
six months' pregnant. I was so scared that I was going to die."

Details of the MI6's role in the CIA operation emerged after Human
Rights Watch found documents related to the case in Libya after the fall
of Gaddafi's government.


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