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What is hostage diplomacy and why is it on the rise?

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The Legacy of the War on Terror

In the aftermath of 9-11 attacks, U.S., Britain and some other countries were accused of using a practice which involved rendering hundreds of people suspected by their governments of being terrorists to third-party states. To instrumentalise an individual human being is a terrible human rights abuse," says Labour Party politician Baroness Warsi. "The international rule of law is only diluted and diminished the more that big, powerful states diluted for their own ends"

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