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Council of Europe: Investigator says Europe knew of CIA operations

Feb 16, 2006

On 24 January, Dick Marty, the Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur on alleged secret detentions and transport of terrorist suspects by the CIA, delivered his interim report concluding that European countries were almost certainly aware of CIA activities in Europe. On...

UN: Independent experts call for Guantánamo Bay to be closed

Feb 16, 2006

On 16 February, five UN independent investigators issued a joint report on the detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, urging the US to close it down and either bring all detainees before an independent and competent tribunal or release them. The UN Secretary General and...

Uzbekistan: Andijan witness sentenced for conspiring with terrorists

Feb 16, 2006

On 5 January, an Uzbek court sentenced a human rights activist to seven years in prison on charges of conspiring with terrorists, defaming the state, and religious extremism, after he briefed foreign media about the Government crackdown on protests in Andijan last...

Russian Federation/CIS: Increased restrictions on NGOs in the name of fighting terrorism

Feb 16, 2006

In Russia, on 10 January, President Putin signed a bill imposing new restrictions on NGOs. The bill, justified as necessary to fight terrorism and extremism, will come into force on 17 April, three months after it was published in the official journal. In Kyrgyzstan,...

Russian Federation: Lower House passes a new anti-terrorism bill

Feb 16, 2006

After President Putin issued a decree establishing a new anti-terrorism body headed by the Director of the Federal Security Service on 16 February, the Russian lower House of Parliament subsequently approved a new anti-terrorism bill to give effect to the decree. The...