For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.





On Tuesday, the Open Society Justice Initiative released a 212-page report that details international assistance to US covert action related to controversial Bush-era anti-terror policy. The report (PDF), titled “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition,” identifies 136 people who were captured or transferred by the Central Intelligence Agency, and lists available information about the detainees—both the Islamist operatives and the completely innocent.

“Globalizing Torture” also provides an annotated list of the dozens of foreign governments that played roles in the CIA’s secret program in the years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. These governments provided crucial support in facilitating the CIA and Bush administration’s war on Al Qaeda by, according to the report:

[H]osting CIA prisons on their territories; detaining, interrogating, torturing, and abusing individuals; assisting in the capture and transport of detainees; permitting the use of domestic airspace and airports for secret flights transporting detainees; providing intelligence leading to the secret detention and extraordinary rendition of individuals; and interrogating individuals who were secretly being held in the custody of other governments. Foreign governments also failed to protect detainees from secret detention and extraordinary rendition on their territories and to conduct effective investigations into agencies and officials who participated in these operations.

Here are the 54 listed, in alphabetical order:

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Belgium

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Canada

Croatia

Cyprus

The Czech Republic

Denmark

Djibouti

Egypt

Ethiopia

Finland

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

Iceland

Indonesia

Iran

Ireland

Italy

Jordan

Kenya

Libya

Lithuania

Macedonia

Malawi

Malaysia

Mauritania

Morocco

Pakistan

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Saudi Arabia

Somalia

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Syria

Thailand

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

Uzbekistan

Yemen

Zimbabwe

Check out the full report here.