European Parliament Should Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity (HRW)

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European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity
12 Feb 2007 23:39:15 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch

(Brussels, February 13, 2007) � The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of "extraordinary renditions" and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today.

The report of the European Parliament's Committee on CIA activities in Europe (TDIP) will be voted upon at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, February 14. The report confirms that European complicity allowed CIA renditions and secret detentions to occur ...

The report also recommends that countries launch their own "independent investigations into what happened," and "immediately seek the return of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by US authorities, and compensate the innocent victims of extraordinary renditions."

According to the report, more than 1,245 CIA-operated flights were operated through European airspace between 2001 and 2005. The report found that European countries had been "turning a blind eye" to such flights, which "on some occasions, were being used for extraordinary rendition or the illegal transportation of detainees." The report sets forth 21 cases of persons who were resident in a European state at the time of their abduction or were transferred through a European country ...

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TDIP
Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/comparl/tempcom/tdip/default_en.htm