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Human rights official accuses Poland, Romania of hosting CIA jails

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A Council of Europe rapporteur on torture said Friday Poland and Romania were complicit in extra-judicial detentions and renditions of terrorist suspects by the CIA.
PARIS, June 8 (RIA Novosti) - A Council of Europe rapporteur on torture said Friday Poland and Romania were complicit in extra-judicial detentions and renditions of terrorist suspects by the CIA.

Dick Marty, who has led an investigation against the use of torture since late 2005, told a Friday news conference, following his second report to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, that there is enough evidence to state that the Polish and Romanian presidents agreed in 2003-2005 to host secret CIA prisons for terrorist suspects.

Marty said the evidence had been collected by "private sources" linked to U.S., Polish, and Romanian intelligence.

French media said Friday that the Polish and Romanian governments denied any involvement in the CIA's secret prisons.

Marty cited the U.S. invocation of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which founded NATO, on October 4, 2001.

NATO members agreed to grant U.S. military aircraft "blanket overflight clearance" over Europe and to open up greater U.S. access to NATO ports and other facilities in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Marty said there were also additional secret protocols to that agreement, allowing the CIA to secretly hold terrorist suspects prisoner in Europe.

Although Amnesty International, a human rights organization that has issued annual reports listing human rights violations in all countries since 1961, said in 2004-2005 that "some European countries" were apparently complicit in the CIA effort, it did not point directly to Warsaw or Bucharest's involvement in its country-specific reports.

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