Lithuania, Romania complicit in secret CIA prisons: European court

in #news6 years ago

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STRASBOURG: the european court docket of Human Rights dominated on Thursday that Lithuania and Romania had been complicit in a controversial CIA programme to preserve suspects caught after the 9-11, 2001, terror assaults in mystery detention centres on their territories.

suspects now being detained at the usa army jail in Guantanamo Bay lodged the case with the court docket in 2011 and 2012, alleging they were illegally held and tortured at CIA “black websites” in Romania and Lithuania from 2004 to 2006.

The court docket stated Romanian authorities knew that Saudi countrywide Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri would danger torture and the dying penalty whilst it allowed the CIA to hold him at an undisclosed facility of their united states from April 2004 to November 2005.

Nashiri is accused of orchestrating maritime terror attacks inclusive of the 2000 bombing of the americaCole in Yemen that left 17 lifeless.

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