EU awaiting Polish, Romanian replies on CIA jails

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday it was awaiting responses from Poland and Romania to charges that they hosted CIA prisons where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards used methods akin to torture.

A day after Britain said Washington used its territory to transfer terrorism suspects, a spokesman for the EU executive said Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini had renewed an appeal for the countries to respond to the Council of Europe report.

The Council of Europe, Europe's main human rights watchdog, said last year that detention centers in Romania and Poland were used to interrogate top al Qaeda suspects from 2003-2005.

"They (the letters) reminded the two countries ... of the obligation to carry out effective investigations and asked for detailed information as to how this has been implemented and in particular what the outcome of the investigation is," Johannes Laitenberger told a daily news briefing on Friday.



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[LynnTheDem]

1. Really woulda thought if any nations knew better than condone war crimes

such as illegal invasions and torture and gulags, it'd be Poland & Romania.

[LynnTheDem]

2. And WTF is this

"used methods akin to torture"??!

That's parsing beyond parsing.