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Senate report 'proves Lithuania hosted CIA jail': detainee's lawyers
Source: Reuters
US | Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:32pm EDT
Senate report 'proves Lithuania hosted CIA jail': detainee's lawyers
MOSCOW | BY CHRISTIAN LOWE
A U.S. Senate report on CIA interrogations proves beyond doubt that Lithuania knowingly hosted one of the agency's secret detention facilities, lawyers for an ex-detainee told the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday.
Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah is asking the Strasbourg-based court to rule that NATO member Lithuania was part of a network of U.S. allies which agreed to host CIA "black sites" around the world where al Qaeda suspects were held and tortured.
His case was sent to the court in 2011, but last December's release of the Senate report has given new momentum to legal moves aimed at holding European governments to account over their role in the CIA's program.
New evidence in the public domain, including the Senate report, "renders Lithuania's responsibility for the violation of the applicant's rights beyond reasonable doubt," Zubaydah's lawyers said in a submission filed to the court on Thursday.
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Senate report 'proves Lithuania hosted CIA jail': detainee's lawyers
MOSCOW | BY CHRISTIAN LOWE
A U.S. Senate report on CIA interrogations proves beyond doubt that Lithuania knowingly hosted one of the agency's secret detention facilities, lawyers for an ex-detainee told the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday.
Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah is asking the Strasbourg-based court to rule that NATO member Lithuania was part of a network of U.S. allies which agreed to host CIA "black sites" around the world where al Qaeda suspects were held and tortured.
His case was sent to the court in 2011, but last December's release of the Senate report has given new momentum to legal moves aimed at holding European governments to account over their role in the CIA's program.
New evidence in the public domain, including the Senate report, "renders Lithuania's responsibility for the violation of the applicant's rights beyond reasonable doubt," Zubaydah's lawyers said in a submission filed to the court on Thursday.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/17/us-usa-cia-torture-lithuania-idUSKCN0RH2YL20150917