ACLU to challenge ‘forcible rendering’ of unnamed US citizen, held by US military in Iraq for seven months after capture by Syrian rebelsAn American citizen who has been held without charge in Iraq since last September by the US military now faces being moved to an unidentified foreign country under government plans that his lawyers are scrambling to challenge. The name of the receiving country is being kept secret, though reports have suggested it is Saudi Arabia. The American Civil Liberties Union plans to challenge the transfer, which it argues is unlawful. “The Trump administration has been detaining this American citizen unlawfully for more than seven months, and forcibly rendering him to another country would be an unconscionable violation of his constitutional rights. A hearing over the government’s transfer plans will be held before Chutkan on Thursday.

Source: The Guardian April 17, 2018 21:00 UTC