Europe's top human-rights body backs CIA allegations
STRASBOURG, FRANCE - Europe's top human rights watchdog on Tuesday accused European states of colluding with the United States in alleged Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) activities on the continent. The Council of Europe said in a resolution that some countries were staging posts for illegal "extraordinary rendition" flights - the US practice of transporting detainees to other states for interrogation. Other countries let the US abduct suspects from their territory, it added. The council's 46 member states are obliged to respond to the resolution which follows a report by the council's investigator into alleged US actions in Europe.
The following countries were mentioned in the report as having participated in colluding with the CIA: Romania, Poland, Turkey, Spain, Germany, Cyprus, Britain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Sweden, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The report mentioned further that seven countries - Britain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Turkey - could be held responsible for violating prisoners' rights to "varying degrees." Others, it found, "could be held responsible for collusion - active or passive, in the sense of having tolerated or having been negligent" in the matters of secret prisons and transfers - and mentioned Poland, Romania, Spain, Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal and Greece.
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