Probe urged on EU role in CIA torture

Members of the European Parliament have called for an investigation into the role of EU countries in providing the CIA with secret torture centers.

In Brussels, the lawmakers debated a US Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture techniques used by the CIA. The report has revealed, among other things, that the US spy service had secret torture centers in the European Union countries.

According to EU Home Affairs Commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, the commission said EU countries should conduct “in-depth, independent investigations” into any involvement they had in the CIA’s torture program.

“Europe’s participation in any form in any type of illegal activity by the CIA is shameful, unworthy of democracy, unworthy of the foundations and values on which the EU was built”, said Slovenian member Tanja Fajon.

Portuguese Socialist member Ana Gomes said the US relied on Portugal on at least 100 occasions to transport terror suspects. “We need to end impunity,” she said.

The Senate report last week revealed that Britain had requested its role be excised from the document, itself only a summary of a 6,700-page still-classified report.

The CIA also requested that the names of countries hosting CIA sites “or with which the CIA negotiated the hosting of sites, as well as information directly or indirectly identifying such countries, be redacted from the classified version provided to (Senate Intelligence) Committee members.”

Earlier, the former managing director of Szymany Airport in Poland said the CIA used the airstrip secretly for its torture program.

Mariola Przewlocka told The Daily Mail last week that the spy agency flew terror suspects into the airport and then to a black site for brutal interrogation techniques.

She said mysterious flights arrived with little notice and several cars with darkened windows took passengers from the planes. Anonymous officials paid for the landing fees.

The Senate report confirmed that the CIA used extreme methods such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation, mock executions and threats that the relatives of the prisoners would be sexually abused.

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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/21/391165/eu-role-in-cia-torture-investigated/

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