Abstract
Terrorism has been identified as one of the greatest global challenges in the past decades, considering its threat to the existence of democratic values in the society. Arbitrary governments are not free from the accusation of constituting a bundle of these threats to democratic values in the society. Hence, these governments must act with safeguards in order to ensure that state authorities do not flagrantly violate human rights and rule of law in the course of fighting terrorism. This paper noted that human rights and rule of law has been notoriously violated especially in cases of extraordinary rendition acclaimed to be an instrument used in the fight against terrorism. This paper is of the opinion that whereas it is evident that terrorism must be eradicated, a balance must be struck between the fight against terrorism and protection of human rights and rule of law.