Jaime Jansen
http://digbig.com/4jggr
"Amnesty International [advocacy website] accused European states of being "partners in crime" with the United States in the alleged circuit of CIA rendition flights [JURIST news archive] transporting terror suspects to third countries known to use torture. The human rights group, in an open letter [PDF text; press release] addressed to the Council of the European Union [official website] in advance of a Thursday meeting, called for European nations to stop cooperating in the flights. Amnesty accuses seven European nations of participating – Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey – in a report [PDF text] which analyzes the involvement of each. In its report, which echoes accusations leveled at 14 European nations [JURIST report] last week in a draft report [PDF text] by the Council of Europe (CoE) [official website], Amnesty says there is "irrefutable evidence of European complicity in the unlawful practice of renditions." Like the CoE report, however, it provides no concrete evidence. [..] In a related development, a European Parliament [official website] committee [official website] approved a report [PDF text; JURIST report] supporting allegations that the CIA was "directly responsible for the illegal seizure, removal, abduction and detention of terrorist suspects" in Europe. Reuters has more."
