European Court to hear new CIA jail case against Poland

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Source: Reuters

By Christian Lowe - WARSAW | Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:02am EDT

(Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has agreed to consider a second case against Poland over allegations it allowed the CIA to run a secret jail on its soil, intensifying pressure on Warsaw to reveal how closely it was involved in the U.S. "war on terror".

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According to applications submitted to court by lawyers for the two men, they were flown by private jet to a remote Polish airfield and then driven to the facility near a village called Stare Kiejkuty. While there, they say they were subjected to interrogation techniques - including water-boarding - that human rights activists say amount to torture.

Polish officials deny hosting a CIA jail. Poland's foreign ministry said it had received details of the case from the ECHR.

"Poland is obliged to reply to the complaint by the deadline of September 16 this year. The case is currently being analyzed by the legal services of the ministry," it said in a statement....


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[Solly Mack]

1. Don't you just love the way the press still frames the use of torture?

interrogation techniques - including water-boarding - that human rights activists say amount to torture

It's not that nations have called water boarding torture. It's not that the U.S. government hasn't charged and convicted others for water boarding (because it IS torture and the U.S. government knows this).

Oh, no. It's "...water-boarding - that human rights activists say amount to torture."

Human rights activists say it - you know, those crazy special interests people say it. Those fringe people that just want to "criminalize policy differences".

Like water-boarding isn't already officially & legally torture and that some people just make that claim. So it's treated as debatable. As if it was never settled and agreed upon that water-boarding is torture, so no one knows for sure.