Strasbourg, 11.09.2012 – “I warmly welcome today’s European Parliament resolution on the illegal detention of prisoners in European countries by the CIA,” said Jean-Claude Mignon, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

“It is now more than five years since Senator Dick Marty first presented to PACE credible evidence of secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania, and the involvement of other European countries in illegal renditions. Much of what he said has been subsequently confirmed, but national judicial or parliamentary investigations into how secret detentions and torture could take place on European soil – and who was responsible – have been, frankly, painfully inadequate. All too often, ‘state secrets’ have been invoked without justification to shield wrongdoing. (more...)

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