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EU: RENDITION: MEPs want full investigation into CIA rendition operations on EU soil

09 June 2016

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"European Parliament has adopted a non-binding resolution calling on European Union officials to investigate the “multiple fundamental rights violations and torture” that took place in CIA “rendition” operations on European soil between 2001 and 2006.

In the resolution, passed by 329 votes to 299, with 49 abstentions, MEPs call on EU member states to “investigate, insuring full transparency, the allegations that there were secret prisons on their territory in which people were held under the CIA programme”.

The MEPs are concerned that “undue classification of documents” leads to “de facto impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations”."

See: MEPs want full investigation into CIA rendition operations on EU soil (New Europe, link)

And: European Parliament: Follow-up to the resolution of Parliament of 11 February 2015 on the US Senate report on the use of torture by the CIA (pdf) which, amongst other things:

"Recalls that transparency is the absolute cornerstone of any democratic society, the sine qua non for a government’s accountability to its people; is therefore profoundly worried by the increasing trend for governments to unduly invoke ‘national security’ with the sole or primary aim of blocking public scrutiny by citizens (to whom the government is accountable) or by the judiciary (which is the guardian of a country’s laws); points to the great danger of deactivating any democratic accountability mechanisms, effectively absolving the government of its accountability."

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