EUROPEAN UNION: Complicity with US torture slammed

EUROPEAN UNION: Complicity with US torture slammed

Human rights group Amnesty International has released a report on the role of European Union nations in the US program of "renditions". The report, published on June 14, documents EU complicity in Washington's program of turning illegally detained prisoners captured in the "war on terror" over to third-party states for torture. "Europe often presents itself as a beacon for human rights. The uncomfortable truth is that without Europe's help, some men would not now be nursing torture wounds in prison cells in various parts of the world", said Amnesty's Claudio Cordone. "Some states have even handed people over to the CIA and thus bear responsibility for the subsequent torture and other abuses suffered by those people." The report — Partners in crime: Europe's role in US renditions — is available from <http://www.amnesty.org>.

From Green Left Weekly, June 28, 2006.

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From GLW issue 673