Tuesday, 24 June 2008

European role in secret US flights criticised

Stephen Fidler
FT.com
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

European governments have failed to live up to their responsibilities under international law for the parts they played in covert US rendition and secret detention programmes, Amnesty International says in a report released on Tuesday.

The report says European nations are culpable for breaches of international law even if they merely turned a blind eye to US actions.

The report says much about the programmes, including which states were implicated and their level of involvement, remains unknown. But it said European states helped the US in several ways.
FULL ARTICLE @ FT.com

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