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EU: Council questioned over CIA rendition programme

05 March 2016

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The European Parliament's civil liberties committee (LIBE) has submitted a number of questions to the Council of the EU over its work in relation to the CIA rendition programme. The committee is seeking answers on, amongst other things:

  • whether the Council has apologised for providing incomplete information to the Parliament on meetings with US officials;
  • whether the Council has formally acknowledged Member States' involvement in the rendition programme; and
  • whether the Council has cooperated fully with "the truth-finding and accountability processes in the Member States".

    The questions were tabled on 2 March. The Council is yet to respond.

    See: Question for oral answer to the Council submitted by Claude Moraes, on behalf of the committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: Follow-up to the resolution of Parliament of 11 February 2015 on the US Senate report on the use of torture by the CIA (2014/2997(RSP)) (pdf) and on the European Parliament website (link).

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