The European Court of
Human Rights held that Mr. Masri's forcible disappearance, kidnapping and
covert transfer without legal process to United States custody nine years ago
violated the most basic guarantees of human decency. Notably, the court found
that the treatment suffered by Mr. Masri in 2003 "at the hands of the special
C.I.A. rendition team," at an airport in Skopje, the capital of the former
Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, "amounted to torture."
