[nettime-fr] Sur les prisons américainessecrètes en Europe...

[Louise Desrenards <louise.desrenards@free.fr>]

Pardon, je n'ai pas le temps de traduire mais voici, dans le Washington
Post, ce soir... (on peut toujours prendre le traducteur en ligne de google
qui permet d'avoir de longs textes) Ça se discute à Bruxelles et dans quel
journal français lisons nous une information aussi édifiée?

Voilà l'Europe serait quasiment totalement compromise dans la torture et les
prisons hors droit des Etats Unis.

L.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/24/AR2006012400
117.html
 


Investigator: U.S. 'Outsourced' Torture

By JAN SLIVA
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 24, 2006; 10:30 AM

STRASBOURG, France -- The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA
secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday that evidence pointed to the existence
of a system of "outsourcing" of torture by the United States, and that it
was highly likely European governments were aware of it.

But Swiss Sen. Dick Marty said there was no tangible proof so far of the
existence of clandestine centers in Romania or Poland as alleged by the New
York-based Human Rights Watch, and complained of a lack of cooperation by EU
governments.
    

Dick Marty Swiss senator delivers his speech at the Council of Europe in
Strasbourg western France Tuesday Jan. 24, 2006. Marty the head of a
European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe analyzed a
number of cases in his report, which said evidence pointed to the existence
of a system of
Dick Marty Swiss senator delivers his speech at the Council of Europe in
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European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe analyzed a
number of cases in his report, which said evidence pointed to the existence
of a system of "outsourcing" of torture by the United States. (AP
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His interim report, based partly on results of national investigations and
recent press reports, did not break new ground and largely repeated his
previous claims that U.S. policies in the war on terror contravene
international law on human rights. Allegations that the CIA hid and
interrogated key al-Qaida suspects at Soviet-era compounds in Eastern Europe
were first reported Nov. 2 in The Washington Post.

"There is a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the
existence of a system of "relocation" or "outsourcing" of torture," Marty
said in the report to the Council of Europe, the human rights watchdog on
whose behalf he is investigating.

"Acts of torture or severe violation of detainees' dignity through the
administration of inhuman or degrading treatment are carried outside
national territory and beyond the authority of national intelligence
services," Marty said. He added that more than 100 suspects may have been
transferred to countries where they faced torture or ill treatment in recent
years.

"The entire continent is involved," Marty told the Council of Europe's
parliamentary assembly, a body comprising several hundred national
lawmakers. "It is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least
their intelligence services, were unaware."

In his report, Marty analyzed the cases of an Egyptian cleric allegedly
kidnapped from Milan, Italy, in 2003 by CIA agents and a German captured in
Macedonia and taken to Afghanistan in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

Citing an American lawyer, Marty also said six Bosnians were abducted by
U.S. agents on Bosnian soil and taken to Guantanamo Bay, despite a Bosnian
court ruling ordering their release.

Last week, Italy's justice minister formally asked the United States to
allow Italian prosecutors to question 22 purported CIA operatives they
accuse of kidnapping the Egyptian cleric, Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, in
2003 from a Milan street.

Nasr, believed to belong to an Islamic terror group, was seized Feb. 17,
2003. Prosecutors claim the cleric, who is also known as Abu Omar, was taken
by the CIA to a joint U.S.-Italian air base, flown to Germany and then to
Egypt, where he says he was tortured.

Marty also said he would follow up on evidence gathered in the case of
Khaled al Masri, a German of Lebanese origin reportedly kidnapped from
Germany to Afghanistan, in the next stage of his investigation.

Marty, who is expected to issue another interim report in the next few
months, complained there was enormous pressure on him to produce evidence of
secret CIA prisons but there was not much help from the Council of Europe or
governments.

"Not a single day passes without me being asked, 'Do you have any hard
evidence, is there any proof?'" he said. "I am not a judicial authority, I
have no means of investigation, the logistical support available to me is
very limited."

The European Union's top justice official, Franco Frattini, called on all EU
governments Tuesday to "fully cooperate" with the investigators.

The Council of Europe launched its probe after allegations surfaced in
November that U.S. agents interrogated key al-Qaida suspects at clandestine
prisons in eastern Europe and transported some suspects through Europe to
other countries.

Human Rights Watch identified Romania and Poland as possible sites of secret
U.S.-run detention facilities. Both countries have denied involvement.
Clandestine detention centers would violate European human rights treaties.

Marty said there was no irrefutable evidence of the existence of secret CIA
prisons in Romania, Poland or any other country.

"On the other hand, it has been proved that individuals have been abducted,
deprived of their liberty and all rights and transported to different
destinations in Europe, to be handed over to countries in which they have
suffered degrading treatment and torture," he said. If eventually uncovered,
the detention centers would likely be small cells that could be easily
hidden, he added.

Marty has obtained flight logs archived by the Brussels-based air safety
organization Eurocontrol and satellite images of air bases in Romania and
Poland.



 
 
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