Alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states

The first information memorandum on CIA rendition flights and alleged detention centres dismantles the largely shared statement ‘we didn’t know’. Dick Marty makes clear that governments, or at least the intelligence services, should have been aware of what was going on, given the high number of CIA-chartered flights that have passed through European countries.

In the case of Germany, two CIA linked aircraft were reported to have landed 137 and 146 times in 2002 and 2003 respectively. While the report has no ‘irrefutable evidence’ on secret detention centres in Poland and Romania, it draws an alarm signal regarding the not-so-secret KFOR detention centre in Kosovo (Camp Bondsteel).

Camp Bondsteel is not open for inspection by the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), while arrested prisoners have no recourse to judicial procedures or legal representation.

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Alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states