54 countries helped the CIA after 9/11 attack: Report

THAILAND: Hosted a secret CIA prison where detainees were tortured and also apprehended individuals subjected to secret detention and extraordinary rendition. It also allowed the use of its airspace and airports for CIA secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations

HONG KONG: Captured, detained, interrogated and transferred custody of arrested Libyan national Sami al-Saadi (Abu Munthir) at Chek Lap Kok airport in March 2004 who was subsequently extraordinarily rendered to Libya

THE AUTHOR

AMRIT SINGH is the youngest daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. She is Senior Legal Officer, National Security and Counterterrorism, at the Open Society Justice Initiative, which she joined in 2009.

RIGHTS, RIGHTS LAW is her area of interest, and has been earlier involved in litigation that led the disclosure of thousands of documents concerning the abuse of prisoners held by the US overseas. She is co-author of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.

BEFORE beginning a career in law, Singh was an economist at the IMF in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the Yale Law School.