'Innocent' Kenyan held in Guantanamo Bay for nine years

The US' "extraordinary rendition" programme allows it to swoop on terror suspects and transfer them for interrogation in another country, which will often have less strict laws than its own on the treatment of prisoners.

Kenyan citizen Mohamed Abdulmalik was seized in Mombasa nine years ago, eventually ending up at the US' Guantanamo Bay detention centre, where he is still being held.

A new report has revealed details of 165 cases of rendition in East Africa, raising questions about whether governments are sacrificing sovereignty in their co-operation with the US' "war on terror".

Video journalist: Michael Onyiego

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