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    "id": 287543,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/287543/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "For starters, it is important to understand what we are talking about. What is rendition? What practice is it? Extra ordinary rendition and regular rendition are terms which are used to describe the apprehension and extra judicial transfer of persons from one State to another to be interrogated. It is meant to by-pass the law. It is meant to achieve torture by proxy. That is the whole idea. What the Kenyan Government did was to transfer suspected terrorists to Uganda, a country that is known to employ harsh interrogation techniques that amount to torture. What the Kenyan Government did was to outsource torture. Outsourcing torture is morally repugnant behavior on the part of the Kenyan Government. The Kenyan police used rendition to outsource interrogation. This country has all the machinery and systems. We would have tried those people here or even followed the due process to extradite them to Uganda. Why is extra ordinary rendition illegal? Extra ordinary rendition breaches international law under Article 3 of the UN Convention against torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishments. Secondly, this convention also prohibits the expulsion of a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that you will be in danger of being subject to torture. The second reason why it is illegal is because extra ordinary rendition involves the transfer of a suspect outside the transferees’ jurisdiction. It means that Kenya has no control."
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