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Human Rights Court Holds Hearing on CIA's Use of Poland

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Wed Dec 11, 2013 at 08:28:00 AM EST
Tags: Ghost Air, Poland, Extraordinary Rendition (all tags)
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The European Court of Human Rights is holding hearings to determine Poland's complicity in the CIA's extraordinary rendition and torture program. The court is gathering evidence pertaining to the kidnapping, detention and torture of detainees Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. Abu Zubaydah was ultimately determined not to be a member of al Qaida, and al-Nashiri is one of the detainees scheduled to be tried by military commission at Guantanamo.

Here is the Court's fact-sheet on the two cases. In addition to waterboarding, the unauthorized interrogation techniques used by the CIA included the "powerdrill" and "handgun": [More...]

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