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rendition

rendition

9 8.8
Handing a person to another country to face trial
  • noun
  • /rɛnˈdɪʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : entrega
  • The government faced criticism over its policy of rendition of prisoners to countries with questionable human rights records.
  • extraordinary rendition

We see in the film that before killing and murdering Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia sends a rendition team to Omar Abdul Aziz in Canada.

Examples

  • Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and "extraordinary rendition" have become for Muslim youth symbols of the United States' belligerence and hypocrisy.

    Academic text (2010)

  • The only scandal there is that the "consulate" was actually a rendition site.

    Blog text (30)

  • And this was one of the most obvious, one of the most shocking cases of CIA rendition concerned Sweden.

  • To extract actionable intelligence, it resorted to detention, rendition, and in a few cases, torture.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Reports of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, "waterboarding," and CIA renditions and "black sites" have been even more devastating to the United States' image in Europe.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Human rights activists condemned the rendition of suspects without fair trials in their home countries.

  • In recent years, the rendition of individuals deemed a threat to national security has raised significant legal and ethical concerns.

Synonyms

extradition
vsrendition
  • Formal
61 8.2

The process where one country sends a person accused or found guilty of a crime to another country for trial

is a handover that may be informal and not part of a legal process

Antonyms

retention
23 4.2

Keeping something so you still have it

Compounds

interlingual rendition
9.6

A written text in another language that keeps the same meaning

Surface Forms

rendition singular
renditions plural

Morphology

rendition = render (opaque) = rend + ition

The meaning of 'handing over a person' is not directly derivable from 'render'.

Etymology

Rendition comes from the verb render, which once meant 'to hand over' or 'give' someone to another power. That's why a legal or political rendition is the act of handing a person to another country.