Amnesty International urges EU nations to again probe CIA rendition flights
Source: Associated Press
Amnesty International urges EU nations to again probe CIA rendition flights
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, March 27, 3:17 AM
BRUSSELS — Amnesty International is urging reluctant European Union nations to make a renewed commitment to investigate their own involvement in secret CIA flights carrying suspected terrorists.
Amnesty said in a statement Monday there is “an appalling lack of political will to secure the truth” among EU member states.
Human rights groups have long accused some European nations of covering up their involvement in the so-called “extraordinary rendition” program that shuttled suspected terrorists between CIA-run overseas prisons and the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Human rights advocates claim that the CIA used the program — which was discontinued in 2009 — to outsource torture of detainees to countries where that was permitted.
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