Best international reporting in any medium dealing with human rights
Stephen Grey’s “Ghost Plane” is the consummation of years of investigation, not only by the author, but, as he acknowledges, the informal global network of journalists with whom he collaborated to reveal the murky world of rendition, extraordinary rendition and proxy torture. By tracing the landings and takeoffs of clumsily concealed CIA flights, his work not only demonstrates concerned investigative journalism in action, it lifts the lid on a global gulag of prisons and torture chambers, assembled by US officials in defiance of domestic and international human rights law. It caused a furor in Europe, and should here.
Citation for Excellence:
Matthew McAllester
Newsday
“Bosnia War Criminals in the USA”