CIA driver hemliga fängelse med tortyr i Europa
RT 2012-04-02
Ännu ett förhörsläger med tortyr under CIA:s ledning har avslöjats i Europa. Denna gången i Polen där höga ämbetsmän erkänt att de medverkat i driften av tortyrlägret som även fungerat som hemligt fängelse utanför samhällets rättssystem.
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Under flera år har anklagelser kommit från olika håll om CIA:s verksamhet i Polen. Polska regeringen har hela tiden bestämt avfärdat det hela som konspirationsteorier i vanlig god ordning.
- Nu har Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, före detta chef för Polens underrättelseverksamhet, åtalats för inblandning i verksamheten.
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Confirmed:
- CIA secret prison in Poland
RT 2012-04-02Another CIA-run interrogation 'black site' has been exposed after the confessions of top-ranking Polish officials blew the lid on the dirtiest secret in Eastern Europe.
The former head of Poland’s intelligence service secret has been charged with taking part in establishing a secret prison for the CIA in a remote part of the country.
- Allegedly, foreign prisoners in the detention center were tortured in connection with America's global war on terror.
Siemiatkowski refused to comment on the matter, citing the country's secrecy laws. However, he did not deny the report.
Rumors about Poland hosting a CIA-run prison had circulated for years, though the country's authorities dismissed them as absurd. However, the UN and the Council of Europe had long claimed they had evidence of the site’s existence.
Former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former Prime Minister Leszek Miller both repeatedly denied the knowledge of the prison.
The official investigation into a CIA-run prison in Poland started in 2008, a year after Donald Tusk took office. It took three years for evidence of the site to come to light.
- Allegedly, a secret interrogation facility for terror suspects was operating in Stare Kiejkuty, a small village in remote Poland, from December 2002 to the fall of 2003...
“Depriving prisoners of war of their freedom” and “allowing corporal punishment.”
Earlier, two prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah, claimed they were prisoners at this ‘black site.’ Polish prosecutors have already given the two “victim status”.
Among other possible detainees are self-proclaimed 9/11 terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, perpetrator of the 2000 USS Cole bombing Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, and Palestinian terror suspect Abu Zubaydah.
- According to the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, up to eight prisoners underwent “extraordinary rendition” to be tortured in Poland.
The harsh interrogation techniques used by the American spooks included:
- Waterboarding,
- Starvation,
- Cooling of the body,
- Visual and acoustic deprivation for extended periods of time,
- Slamming prisoners against walls,
- Mock execution, among many other methods.
Naturally, torture is not allowed in any European country, Poland included. If it is proven that Poland did in fact allow torture to take place at a CIA facility in their country, the matter could be taken before the European Court of Human Rights. The prosecution of Polish and American agents would also remain a distinct possibility.
“We can think about Polish intelligence officers who most probably somehow collaborated with the CIA in establishing this site. We can think about the CIA officers, because if they made it [tortures] in the territory of Poland – it is a crime,” human rights lawyer and head of the legal division at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights Dr Adam Bodnar told RT.
“But as you most probably know, the US authorities would not give any data regarding them and would not allow them to be extradited,” he concluded.
Never ever again in Poland?
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk fully supports the high-profile case against the former senior official.
Tusk charged that Poland has become a “political victim” of US officials.
“This may be painful, but concrete evidence that Poland is no longer a country where politicians can fix something under the table and expect it not to [eventually] come out — even if they do so with the world’s greatest superpower," Tusk stated.
- In fact, the Polish PM was left no other choice but to recognize the existence of the CIA prison in his country.
- Tusk charged that Poland has become the “political victim” of US officials leaking some aspects of their bilateral relations.
“Poland is a democracy where national and international law must be observed,” Poland’s PM stated, demanding an investigation into the matter. “Let there be no doubt about it either in Poland or on the other side of the ocean,” he said harshly.
“Poland will no longer be a country where politicians, even if they are working arm-in-arm with the world's greatest superpower, could make some deal somewhere under the table and then it would never see daylight,” he said in reference to the ongoing investigation which is meant to ensure that nothing like this will happen in Poland again.
The US never disclosed the whereabouts of the so-called “black sites,” but human rights groups named Afghanistan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Thailand as the most likely hosts.
Lithuania was the first country in Europe to admit it had allowed the CIA to establish two secret detention facilities in 2002-2006.
In November 2011, Lithuania faced a lawsuit for hosting a secret CIA prison on its soil when Abu Zubaydah, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, claimed he was detained and tortured there.
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6 MEPs censure Lithuania overprobes into CIA-run secret prisons
Sat Apr 28, 2012 PressTV
Lithuania has been criticized by six members of the European Parliament for inadequate investigations into the secret prisons run by the US Central Intelligence Agency in the country’s territory.[...]
Lithuania has been criticized by six members of the European Parliament for inadequate investigations into the secret prisons run by the US Central Intelligence Agency in the country’s territory.[...]
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Confirmed: CIA secret prison in Poland
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Video: an airport in Szymany, close to Szczytno in northeastern Poland, identified as a potential site which the CIA used to transfer al Qaeda suspects to a nearby prison.
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Video: an airport in Szymany, close to Szczytno in northeastern Poland, identified as a potential site which the CIA used to transfer al Qaeda suspects to a nearby prison.
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Council of Europe digs for truth on CIA prisons
***RT 2011-09-07
The Council of Europe has adopted a draft resolution condemning European countries that allowed the CIA to operate secret prisons on their soil. The resolution urges prosecutors to “persevere in seeking to establish the truth.”
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which deals with legal affairs and human rights, gathered in Paris on Wednesday to discuss the report by Swiss politician Dick Marty (Switzerland, ALDE), who says the US has been widely using torture in European detention centers.
Moreover, some European states have been resorting to state secrecy to cover up their activities. Marty criticized the lack of investigative efforts in the countries involved in the scandal, especially Romania, which has denied the episodes Marty told the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper.
Poland and Lithuania, which are accused of special activity to deport terrorist suspects, seemed to Marty to be delaying or hindering the investigations. All this appeared on the draft resolution adopted by PACE, which has passed a verdict to launch judicial or parliamentary inquiries into secret service activities.
Western intelligence is accused of various human rights violations such as torture, abduction or rendition. The committee also urged prosecutors in Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Spain to double their investigative efforts and called on authorities in the US to cooperate with them.
Lithuania deliberately chose not to respond to Marty’s accusations as it would have exposed them, believes Algirdas Paleckis, the leader of the Lithuanian opposition party “Front”.
But no one gave the information about the so-called suspects or terrorists. And this is the core of the problem. This allowed the Lithuanian officials of that time to say they did not have prisons. Yes, we had the infrastructure, but it was not used, they would say.”
“- In Lithuania, the inquiry showed there was a whole infrastructure: the building of the prison, the location, the CIA planes landing in Lithuania in 2002-2005,” the politician told RT. “
CIA's secret prisons in Europe
Publicerades den 22 maj 2012
Documentary made by RT.com "The
CIA's vast network of secret activities spreads everywhere, especially
in the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe.
CIA secret prisons for captive terrorists were found in Poland and Lithuania. Only a handful of people knew their locations.
The row over the secret prisons has divided Europe and triggered a political crisis in several countries.
RT carries out an investigation in the villages of Antavilyai, Lithuania, and Stariye Keikuty, Poland, to find out whether or not these places had something to hide."
The row over the secret prisons has divided Europe and triggered a political crisis in several countries.
RT carries out an investigation in the villages of Antavilyai, Lithuania, and Stariye Keikuty, Poland, to find out whether or not these places had something to hide."
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