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Council of Europe report reveals European collusion with US torture flights <---Link

By Robert Stevens
2 February 2006

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The Swiss senator Dick Marty has issued a preliminary report on behalf of the Council of Europe, which suggests that European governments were almost certainly aware of secret CIA prisoner flights via European airspace or airports.

The Council of Europe has 46 members, 21 of them from Central and Eastern Europe, and is based in Strasbourg, France. The body oversees the European Court of Human Rights.

The report, “Alleged Secret Detentions in Council of Europe Member States,” by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, collates information from a number of EU states regarding CIA flights and alleged secret detention centres.