SECRET PRISONS FUNCTIONING IN 10 EU STATES
By Petros Keshishian
AZG Armenian Daily
01/12/2006
Most of the EU states authorities have known that CIA airplanes
are landing on their territory and secret prisons functioning, but
this was carefully concealed form the public, states a report by a
special commission of the European Parliament. Parts of the report
were published on Tuesday. France Presse reports that Claudio Fava,
head of the commission, stated that the most of the Governments have
actively or passively cooperated with the CIA.
According to Mr. Fava, the heads of the European states have well known
about the prisons were people suspected in terrorism are illegally
kept. He added that only the authorities of Spain and Germany were
willing to cooperate with the commission.
In the report of the commission is said that CIS secret prisons are
functioning in Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain,
Italy, Poland, Portugal and Sweden, as well as Bosnia, Macedonia and
Turkey, which are not EU members. It is also said that CIA airplanes
have landed in the European states at least 1245 times. The airplanes
were transporting illegal prisoners – terrorism suspects.
Evidence of about 130 people – EU officials, special service employees
and reporters, were collected during the 6 month long activity of
the commission. Since 2005 rights protection organizations have
been declaring that existence of such "air prisons" and illegal
places of the execution is a severe violation of the terms of the
International Law.