Glossary This glossary clarifies some terms used in this manual and is not intended to provide official definitions. Throughout the manual, the following key terms should be understood exclusively in the anti-terrorism context. Arrest: the act of apprehending a person for the alleged commission of an offence or by the action of an authority.1 Data-mining: searching personal data sets based on presumed characteristics of suspects.2 Detention: the condition of any person deprived of personal liberty, except as a result of conviction for an offence.3 Extraordinary rendition: the transfer – without legal process – of a detainee to the custody of a foreign state for purposes of detention and interrogation. 4 Imprisonment: condition of any person deprived of personal liberty as a result of conviction for an offence. 5 1 2 3 4 5 United Nations General Assembly, Resolution 43/173, “Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment”, New York, 9 December 1988, <http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/43/a43r173.htm>. United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin, Report to the UN Human Rights Council, 29 January 2007, A/HRC/4/26, para. 35, <http://www.un.org/ Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=A/HRC/4/26>. Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, op. cit., note 1. Globalizing Torture, CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition (New York: Open Society Foundations, 2013), p.13, <http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/ files/globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf>. Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, op. cit., note 1.