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Lithuania and Romania complicit in CIA torture - European court
Source: BBC News
23 minutes ago
European judges have ruled that Lithuania and Romania violated the rights of two al-Qaeda terror suspects by allowing the CIA to torture them.
The US captured Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri after the September 2001 attacks in the US and they are now at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
The CIA operated secret prisons, including in Lithuania and Romania.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said both countries had violated the European prohibition of torture.
The ECHR issued a similar ruling against Poland in 2014.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44313905
