Denmark latest European government to duck rendition probe

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European governments must initiate independent and thorough investigations into their involvement in the US-led programme of renditions and secret detention, says Amnesty International.

“The public have a right to know if European airspace and airports were used to facilitate the transfer of people to places where they faced secret detention and torture”, said Nicola Duckworth, Europe and Central Asia Programme Director at Amnesty International.

“Under international law, states that facilitate transfers to countries where they know or should know that there is a risk of serious human rights abuses are complicit in these abuses, and individuals complicit in abductions, torture or 'disappearances' should be held criminally responsible. Those who have been subject to rendition, disappeared and secretly detained must receive reparation.'

The renewed call came in the wake of further allegations about the rendition and secret detention activities of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Europe. On 21 October 2007 the Danish newspaper Politiken reported that one of the planes known to have been used for CIA rendition flights was given permission to cross Danish airspace on 25 October 2003. It is suspected that this plane, which was en-route from Washington to Jordan, picked up Yemeni national Muhammad Bashmilah from illegal detention in Jordan, and from there rendered him to secret US custody. According to the statement he later gave to Amnesty International, Muhammad Bashmilah was then held by the US in undisclosed locations for over a year and a half. He was kept in solitary confinement, frequently shackled and in handcuffs.
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Wow they have prisons everywhere