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European Parliament: Press releases: Torture: MEPs call for investigation into EU countries' role in CIA practices

17 December 2014

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"Waterboarding, chaining people to walls, rectal feeding: the recently published US Senate’s report on CIA interrogation methods makes serious allegations about the agency using torture to extract information from detainees. In a plenary debate about the report on 17 December, MEPs said that trampling fundamental values in the fight against terrorism is unacceptable and that the possible complicity of EU member states in this should be investigated."

See the full-text: Torture: MEPs call for investigation into EU countries' role in CIA practices (pdf)

And: European Parliament Resolution on recognition of Palestinian statehood (pdf):

"The resolution was drawn up by five political groups and passed by Parliament as a whole, by 498 votes to 88, with 111 abstentions."

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