Top European human rights body says European states collaborated with CIA renditions
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Brussels, June 7, IRNA
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The United States has progressively woven a clandestine "spider's web" of disappearances, secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers spun with the collaboration or tolerance of European states, the Council of Europe said in a report released Wednesday.
In a draft resolution adopted at a meeting in Paris, based on a report by Swiss parliamentarian Dick Marty, the Strasbourg-based Council said hundreds of persons had become entrapped in this web.
The report said this knowing collusion of European states took several different forms, including secretly detaining a person on European territory, capturing a person and handing them over to the US or permitting unlawful "renditions" through their airspace or across their territory.
"It has now been demonstrated incontestably, by numerous well- documented and convergent facts, that secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers involving European countries have taken place, such as to require in-depth inquiries and urgent responses by the executive and legislative branches of all the countries concerned," it said.
It called on Council of Europe member states to review bilateral agreements signed with the United States, particularly those on the status of US forces stationed in Europe, to ensure they conformed fully to international human rights norms.
The report is due for debate by the plenary Assembly - which brings together 630 parliamentarians from the 46 Council of Europe member states - in Strasbourg on 27 June.
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