CIA violated EU laws on its 'rendition' flights, says EU report
An investigation by the European Union has revealed that more than 1,000 aircraft crossed European territory flying CIA terror suspects to secret prisons since September 11, in violation of EU human rights laws. EU ministers were today presented with the first report of an investigation which compared official flight data with the testimony of individuals who claim to have been kidnapped by American agents and flown to torture prisons in the Middle East, Asia and northern Africa. Giovanni Claudio Fava, who drafted the report, wrote: "After 9/11, within the framework of the fight against terrorism, the violation of human and fundamental rights was not [an] isolated measure confined to a short period of time, but rather a widespread regular practice in which the majority of European countries were involved."
Data from Eurocontrol, which monitors all flights through Europe, showed that CIA planes also made numerous stopovers on European territory, in violation of an international air treaty that requires airlines to declare the route and stopovers for planes with a police mission.
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