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Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty has named and shamed those he believes are responsible for allowing secret CIA detention centres in Romania – but the allegations have met with a wall of denial
Secret CIA detention facilities of terrorist suspects existed in Romania and Poland between 2003 and 2005, according to a second Council of Europe report to assess allegations of human rights violations, compiled by Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty.
But all the Romanian political figures named by the report, except President Traian Basescu, have denied the accusations.
President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso also called the evidence in the document “insufficient”, in an interview with Reuters.
These detention camps were part of a CIA programme established by the US administration to kill, capture and detain high value terrorist suspects, alleges Marty.
These activities were unlawful in the USA, so the CIA propositioned some of its strongest allies to outsource its enhanced interrogation of terrorist suspects on foreign soil. They chose Poland and Romania, alleges the report.
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