Polish daily points to evidence about secret CIA prisons in Poland
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, May 30, IRNA -- The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported Monday it had gathered evidence that the CIA had a secret prison in Poland following years of speculations and rumors.
The secret CIA prison was reportedly located near the northeast Polish town of Szymany.
According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the American side is refusing to cooperate in the affair.
Polish prosecutors have also tried to stonewall the case in a bid to reach the statute of limitation.
Meanwhile, Jerzy Mierzewski, the prosecutor who had been in charge of the investigation into alleged CIA prisons on Polish soil, has been replaced by Waldemar Tyl, Gazeta Wyborcza reported earlier.
This decision came shortly after the Open Society Justice Initiative in New York and lawyers acting for one of the alleged prisoners, Abd al-Nashiri, filed a complaint against Poland at the European Court of Human Rights.
Mierzewski had hoped to indicate former Polish government officials on charges of violating the constitution, crimes against humanity and false imprisonment.
Gazeta Wyborcza reported in fall 2009 about a secret memo which confirmed the existence of a secret CIA prison in Poland, a claim rejected so far by all Polish governments.
Polish prosecutors had obtained a highly classified memorandum from either late 2005 or early 2006 showing that a CIA prison existed in Poland.
The Warsaw-based newspaper quoted sources as saying at that time that they had seen the document but did not explicitly say that the prison served as a holding center for al-Qaeda terrorist suspects as has been claimed by the American media.
The Gazeta reported that based on the document the secret prison was set up after the US and Poland signed an accord in 2002 to combat terrorism.
CIA prison allegations first surfaced in six years ago.
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