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Date: Jan 8, 2006 11:45 PM
Subject: [romania-economics] CIA Prisons in RO?
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European Parliament urged to probe CIA secret prisons
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The European Parliament (EP) can play an important role in the investigation into the reports on the existence of CIA detention flights and centers in the EU by getting information from EU member states, the EP's Human Rights Sub-committee was told.
At a meeting of the subcommittee earlier this week, Lotte Leicht, director of Human Rights Watch in Brussels, called for the EP to make full use of its powers of parliamentary scrutiny on the issue, according to an EP statement.
Leaders of the political groups in the EP have proposed that a temporary committee be set up to investigate the existence of CIA detention centers in Europe.
The full parliament is expected to decide at its Strasbourg plenary session later this month whether to approve the proposal.
Leicht said her organization was shocked by the fact that "Europe only woke up when those issues were brought home, whereas in fact kidnappings and torture by the US authorities have been going on for years."
She added that Human Rights Watch had been able to document 26 people who have been held in secret locations since 2002.
She stressed that if the EU, and especially the European Parliament, did not address this issue, it would have no legitimacy or authority to criticize human rights violations elsewhere in the world.
Leicht confirmed the names of Poland and Romania as countries which were discovered to have CIA detention centers, referring specifically to the Szymany air base in Poland.
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