Heli's Heaven and Hell Radio

Friday, June 8, 2007

CIA PRISONS AND DISAPPEARANCES

Javno: "Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and disappeared.
The groups, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, said they filed a U.S. federal lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information about the 39 people it terms 'ghost prisoners' in the U.S. 'war on terror'.

'Since the end of Latin America's dirty wars, the world has rejected the use of 'disappearances' as a fundamental violation of international law,' Professor Meg Satterthwaite of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University's School of Law said in a statement.
The report said suspects' relatives, including children as young as seven, had been held in secret detention on occasion.

The groups urged the U.S. government to cease use of secret detention, provide information on those in custody, give access by the International Committee of the Red Cross to all detainees and either bring charges or release all prisoners."

Journalismus: "Die CIA leitete in Polen einige Einrichtungen, um kurzzeitige Verhöre und Festnahmen angeblicher Terroristen in einer Ausbildungsschule, die zum polnischen Geheimdienst gehört, durchzuführen. Gemäss Geheimdienststellen, zählte diese Operation auf die ausdrückliche Einwilligung der britischen- und der US-Behörden."
10:29:15 AM

SECRET CIA PRISONS IN POLAND AND ROMANIA

EUObserver: "Polish and Romanian security officials have confirmed to Europe's human rights watchdog that the two countries hosted secret and illegal CIA prisons, while the watchdog also says that EU member states were aware of CIA kidnappings and rendition flights, UK daily the Guardian has reported.

In a new report by the Council of Europe - set to be published on Friday (8 June) if adopted by the council delegates - senior Polish and Romanian security officials have confirmed, despite official denials by their governments, that their countries used to hold in secret some US prisoners captured after the September 11 attacks in New York in 2001."
10:22:33 AM