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Poland: UN experts concerned about renditions and secret detentions

Jun 6, 2007

In its conclusions on the report by Poland, the UN Committee against Torture raised concerns about the potential existence of secret detention facilities on Polish territory and urged the authorities to provide more information on the Polish Parliamentary inquiry...

Russian Federation: European Court rules on new “disappearance” case in Chechnya

Jun 6, 2007

On 5 April, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the “disappearance” case of Baysayeva v. Russia that the Russian Federation had violated the right to life and the right to liberty and security of Shakhid Baysayeva. The Court also found Russia responsible for...

Italy: Judge rules CIA abduction trial should proceed

Jun 6, 2007

In the case of Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric allegedly abducted by the CIA in Milan in February 2003, a judge rejected the Government’s claim that the prosecutor did not have the authority to charge Italian intelligence officers and CIA agents. The trial will proceed...

Switzerland: Journalists who published fax on secret CIA prisons acquitted by court martial

Jun 6, 2007

On 17 April, a military court acquitted three journalists accused of revealing military secrets for publishing in the SonntagsBlick newspaper a fax from the Egyptian Government intercepted by the Swiss intelligence agency. The fax contained information alleging the...

Germany: Prosecutor dismisses suit against Donald Rumsfeld and other senior US officials

Jun 6, 2007

On 27 April, the Federal Prosecutor announced she would not proceed with an investigation against Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other senior US officials for torture and other war crimes committed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantánamo Bay. A similar lawsuit...