PACE RAPPORTEUR EXPOSES GLOBAL ‘SPIDER’S WEB’ OF CIA SECRET JAILS
PanARMENIAN.Net
07.06.2006 18:14 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly rapporteur
Dick Marty today revealed what he called a global “spider’s web”
of CIA detentions and transfers and listed seven Council of Europe
member states who could be held responsible, in varying degrees, for
violations of the rights of named individuals by colluding in these
operations. In a 67-page explanatory memorandum to his report, made
public in Paris today at a meeting of the Assembly’s Legal Affairs
Committee, he said there were corroborated facts strengthening the
presumption that landing points in Romania and Poland were detainee
drop-off points near to secret detention centers.
“Even if proof, in the classical meaning of the term, is not as yet
available, a number of coherent and converging elements indicate that
such secret detention centers did indeed exist in Europe.” These
elements warranted further investigation, he said. “It is now
clear… that authorities in several European countries actively
participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities. Other countries
ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know,” he said.
Mr Marty said he used evidence from national and international air
traffic control authorities, as well as sources inside intelligence
services, including in the United States, to compile a detailed
picture of a global system of secret detentions and unlawful
transfers – including new analysis revealing what he called “rendition
circuits”. He listed seven Council of Europe member states who could
be held responsible, in varying degrees, which are not always settled
definitively, for violations of the rights of specific individuals:
Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Kingdom, Italy, “the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Germany and Turkey. Several
more colluded, actively or passively, in the detention or transfer
of unknown persons, he said, reported the PACE Communication Unit.