Human rights watchdog demands access to NATO-run prisons in Kosovo

[struggle4progress]

STRASBOURG, France-The Council of Europe on Tuesday urged NATO to give the human rights watchdog's inspectors immediate access to a detention facility in Kosovo run by the military organization's peacekeeping force.

The council, Europe's top human rights body, has been trying to reach agreement with NATO for years to be able to inspect a KFOR-run prison at Camp Bondsteel, the only detention facility in Europe where it currently does not have unlimited access.

"If there is nothing to hide, the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture should be given immediate and unlimited access. This is the right of the CPT everywhere else on the territory of Council of Europe member states, including Kosovo," Council of Europe chairman Terry Davis said in a statement ...

Under legally binding European human rights treaties, the committee has unlimited access to places of detention and the right to move inside such places without restriction ...

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2006/01030.html

[Richard Steele]

1. NATO claims they aren't holding anyone there...

...while refusing watchdog groups access.

That kinda smells funny to me.
If it's been empty for 2 years, why keep anyone out?
They could settle the issue with a quick guided tour.

Suspicion time:
Might we have just identified another of the
secret prisons our Gov uses to 'disappear' people?

[mom cat]

2. I think that it is time to find out!

[anotherdrew]

3. if Kerry has any balls he will go there and get them in personaly

but he doesn't

[Richard Steele]

4. Guess what tidbit Swiss Intelligence intercepted the other month?

Swiss "Echelon" Catches Sniff of CIA Secret Prisons

...The Egyptian fax stated that 23 Iraqi and Afghan citizens
had been transferred to a Romanian military base near the port of Constanza
for interrogation purposes.
It added that similar detention centres had been set up in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria. (my emphasis)

http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2006/01/swiss-echelon-catches-sniff-of-cia.html

[Clara T]

5. kick for info