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Guantánamo Bay detainees claim Poland allowed CIA torture
Source: The Guardian
Guantánamo Bay detainees claim Poland allowed CIA torture
Terror suspects subjected to extraordinary rendition tell European
court of human rights they were waterboarded
Owen Bowcott and Ian Cobain
theguardian.com, Tuesday 3 December 2013 13.15 GMT
Lawyers for two men subject to extraordinary rendition by the CIA told the European court of human rights (ECHR) on Tuesday that Poland, which permitted a secret "black" site to operate on its territory, should also be held responsible for their torture.
Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni descent and Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, also known as Abu Zubaydah, a stateless Palestinian, maintain they were waterboarded during interrogation in Poland. Both men are being held by the US in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The Strasbourg court also heard a submission from Ben Emmerson QC, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, who argued that where gross or "systematic human rights violations are alleged to have occurred, the right to know the truth is not only an individual right that belongs to the immediate victim of the violation, but also a collective right that belongs to the whole of society".
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Terror suspects subjected to extraordinary rendition tell European
court of human rights they were waterboarded
Owen Bowcott and Ian Cobain
theguardian.com, Tuesday 3 December 2013 13.15 GMT
Lawyers for two men subject to extraordinary rendition by the CIA told the European court of human rights (ECHR) on Tuesday that Poland, which permitted a secret "black" site to operate on its territory, should also be held responsible for their torture.
Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni descent and Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, also known as Abu Zubaydah, a stateless Palestinian, maintain they were waterboarded during interrogation in Poland. Both men are being held by the US in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The Strasbourg court also heard a submission from Ben Emmerson QC, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, who argued that where gross or "systematic human rights violations are alleged to have occurred, the right to know the truth is not only an individual right that belongs to the immediate victim of the violation, but also a collective right that belongs to the whole of society".
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/03/guantanamo-cia-rendition-torture-poland