Cultura - RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera

La storia di Desmond, affogato con il marchio di Nem

Il giovane africano morto nel Ceresio si era diplomato alla Spai con alti voti e aveva lavorato come asfaltatore. Fino al rigetto della sua richiesta come richiedente l’asilo.

È una storia d’acqua e d’asfalto quella di Desmond Richard, il ragazzo africano annegato domenica pomeriggio nel Ceresio, a pochi metri da riva, davanti all’ex collegio don Bosco. Una storia di amicizie, integrazione e anche tristezza, perché è ingiusto morire a 27 anni. Integrazione è la parola chiave per capire la sua vita, frettolosamente archiviata come la vicenda di un richiedente l’asilo finito male. Anzi ex richiedente, dopo che la Segreteria di Stato della migrazione lo scorso anno aveva deciso per l’espulsione. Desmond era un “NEM”, l’autorità federale gli aveva chiuso la porta in faccia col sigillo della “non entrata in materia”. Stop, da quel giorno la Svizzera gli ha voltato le spalle.

Una decisione che fa a pugni col fatto che Desmond era perfettamente integrato. Non opinioni, ma fatti: a partire dal diploma, ottenuto con il cinque e mezzo di media nonostante le difficoltà in italiano, alla Spai di Mendrisio come “costruttore stradale”. Qualificato, perché la formazione triennale gli aveva permesso di ottenere l’attestato federale di capacità.

Un lavoratore molto capace e apprezzato, come lo ricorda un collega della ditta di asfaltatura, la Cogesa, dove ha lavorato fino al luglio dell’anno scorso. Un lavoro duro, quello dell’asfaltatore, che gli permetteva però di essere autosufficiente. Pagava la sua cassa malati (quanti integrati lo fanno?) e contribuiva col 10 per cento del salario al fondo per la migrazione. Intanto riusciva a mettere da parte anche dei risparmi.

Desmond aveva un caratteraccio, dicono quelli che gli hanno voluto bene. Poteva mandarti allegramente a quel paese e questi sbalzi, accompagnati da un’aggressività solo verbale, sarebbero stati anche, ma qui avvertiamo il lettore ci siamo fermati, all’origine dei suoi ricoveri all’Osc di Mendrisio. Fino all’ultimo, quello finito tragicamente durante l’uscita a bordo lago a Maroggia con altri pazienti e accompagnatori. Fin qui i fatti, perché il lato più drammatico della vita di Desmond racconta di una madre morta, anzi uccisa, davanti agli occhi di lui bambino, durante l’esodo verso l’Europa. Non amava riaprire quella ferita, e forse molti dei suoi problemi attuali erano riconducibili a quel trauma.

Persa tragicamente la mamma, mai conosciuto il padre, Desmond era convinto, sino allo scorso anno, di essere originario del Benin.

Ma qualcosa non quadrava, dal momento che la sua lingua non era il francese (la parlata ufficiale di quel Paese), ma l’inglese. Un mistero che è stato risolto solo lo scorso anno, quando in un consolato africano di Zurigo Desmond ha scoperto le sue radici: Benin sì, ma Benin City, una popolosa città della Nigeria. E la provenienza nigeriana sarebbe diventata uno degli ostacoli per il riconoscimento quale richiedente l’asilo.

Così, gravato da un decreto di espulsione che lo invitava a lasciare la Svizzera, il giovane aveva ottenuto qualcosa che poteva permettergli di rifarsi un’altra vita altrove. Un passaporto nigeriano. Un pezzo di carta che purtroppo non gli servirà più a niente.

https://media.tio.ch/files/domains/tio.ch/images/4bps/-la-storia-di-desmond-affogato-con-il-marchio-di-nem-e0j4.jpg?v=1#.jpg https://media.tio.ch/files/domains/tio.ch/images/4bps/-la-storia-di-desmond-affogato-con-il-marchio-di-nem-e0j6.jpg?v=1#.jpg

▻https://www.tio.ch/ticino/attualita/1313882/la-storia-di-desmond-affogato-con-il-marchio-di-nem?mr=1&ref=

La Segreteria dello di Stato della Migrazione uccide ancora

Lo scorso 5 agosto 2018 – secondo i media – muore a Maroggia un “ex richiedente l’asilo” annegato nelle acque del Ceresio. Un “tragico incidente”, “una fatalità”, “scivolato su una passerella in riva al lago” – dicono – (…)ex richiedente, che la Segreteria di Stato della Migrazione (SEM) lo scorso anno aveva deciso per l’espulsione(…) D. era un “NEM”, l’autorità federale gli aveva chiuso la porta in faccia col sigillo della “Non Entrata in Materia” . Eppure qui qualcosa non quadra, non convince, per l’ennesima volta. Con un trascorso tragico come molti/e migranti, dopo aver conosciuto inferni come la Libia e la traversata del Mar Mediterraneo nel quale ha perso l’unica persona legata a lui ovvero sua madre, (deceduta e gettata in mare come immondizia) e padre mai conosciuto, era da diversi anni in Svizzera, il paese della tanto rinomata ”accoglienza”. Qui ha svolto diversi tirocini e conseguito un diploma da asfaltatore, per diventare solo uno dei tanti sfruttati.

Se da una parte dopo la sua scomparsa è stato elogiato dai giornali per quanto riguarda la farsa dell’integrazione, dall’altra quest’ultima suona sempre come una dichiarazione di guerra, una sorta di minaccia verso le persone che giungono in un altro paese, un’impresa eroica praticamente irraggiungibile. È ora ben chiaro che nemmeno superarla basta più. Nonostante fosse riuscito ad adeguarsi ai canoni di questa società, diventando un numero fra tanti che si spezza la schiena per alimentare questo accogliente sistema, si è visto ritirare il suo permesso da richiedente l’asilo proveniente dal Benin, poiché, come dicono i giornali: “ (…)qualcosa non quadrava, dal momento che la sua lingua non era il francese (la parlata ufficiale di quel Paese – il Benin ), ma l’inglese. Un mistero che è stato risolto solo lo scorso anno, quando in un consolato africano di Zurigo D. ha scoperto le sue radici: Benin sì, ma Benin City, una popolosa città della Nigeria. E la provenienza nigeriana sarebbe diventata uno degli ostacoli per il riconoscimento quale richiedente l’asilo”. Dunque l’accertamento della sua provenienza ha permesso di sbloccare le pratiche per la sua deportazione. Senza se, senza ma, Richard Desmond poteva quindi essere rimpatriato forzatamente.

Da qui, con un’espulsione pendente nei suoi confronti verso una terra mai conosciuta e, viste le sue grida di aiuto inascoltate da parte di persone e associazioni, l’unico destino a lui imposto, come accade per molte persone in tali situazioni, è stata quella del ricovero all’ospedale psichiatrico. Bombato di psicofarmaci in modo che non potesse né pensare né reagire a quello che gli stava accadendo. Letteralmente gettato nel dimenticatoio, nel luogo in cui la mente viene annientata dai sedativi e la propria personalità viene calpestata.
D’altronde si sa, le numerose testimonianze dalle prigioni ai centri di detenzione/espulsione per migranti parlano chiaro: è più facile ottenere ansiolitici o sedativi piuttosto che pastiglie per il mal di testa, per la gioia degli aguzzini e delle case farmaceutiche – come avviene anche nella vita di molte persone bianche occidentali.
Forse allora non si parla più di “tragico incidente”, o “scivolata dal pontile”, come riportano i media di regime, per quanto ci riguarda si tratta dell’ennesimo omicidio da parte di chi decide delle vite e delle libertà altrui. Ennesimo perché di storie simili ne abbiamo sentite abbastanza, chi si ricorda di Youssouuf Diakité, il ragazzo maliano di 20 anni che il 27 febbraio dello scorso anno rimase folgorato sul tetto di un treno? O del ragazzo marocchino travolto a gennaio da un convoglio – sempre a Balerna – lungo i binari della ferrovia? E del richiedente l’asilo di Brissago morto ammazzato da 3 colpi di pistola (!!) da parte della polizia cantonale ticinese per “legittima difesa”? Per non citare Hervé Mandundu, ucciso il 6 novembre 2016 da tre pallottole sparate da un caporale della polizia del Chablais nel Canton Vaud. O Lamine F. trovato morto in una cella del carcere della Blécherette a Losanna il 24 ottobre 2017 che tre giorni prima, alla stazione di Losanna, era stato fermato per un controllo dalle guardie di confine e trattenuto in carcere perché scambiato per un’altra persona per la quale era stato emanato un decreto di espulsione. O anche Mike, membro del collettivo Jeano Dutoit, morto il 28 febbraio 2018 a Losanna durante un controllo di polizia nel quale viene “immobilizzato” e quante storie ancora di “avventurieri” migranti morti cercando di attraversare i confini di questa maledetta fortezza Europa?
Tutte persone non vittime di fatalità o incidenti come spesso riportato, ma uccise da questo sistema marcio, dalla Segreteria di Stato della Migrazione, uccise dai confini di Stato, uccise dalla Polizia, uccise dal silenzio di questa società complice… …ma tanto si sa, erano migranti, persone non in regola – senza documenti – dal colore della pelle nera, e le loro vite valgono meno delle vite dei bianchi occidentali, non valgono un cazzo. Ecco l’accoglienza svizzera fatta di razzismo, prigioni, deportazioni e omicidi.
Il razzismo e le frontiere uccidono, l’indifferenza pure! Per un mondo dove nessuno/a debba morire per una linea tracciata su una cartina o per il fatto di non possedere un pezzo di carta: abbattiamo ogni frontiera!

https://frecciaspezzata.noblogs.org/files/2017/03/giovedi-2-marzo-presidio-a-chiasso-300x236.jpg

Une certaine idée de la justice

Ses enquêtes, dignes des meilleurs romans d’espionnage ont fait la une de la presse mondiale. De la plus grande saisie d’héroïne jamais réalisée en Suisse aux prisons secrètes de la CIA, du trafic d’organes au Kosovo à la situation des droits de l’homme en Tchétchénie, Dick Marty s’est engagé successivement dans les trois pouvoirs de l’État. Ce livre n’est pas seulement le récit inédit de ces investigations souvent périlleuses, mais aussi une réflexion critique sur des sujets politiques controversés.

http://www.editionsfavre.com/books/978-2-8289-1736-4.jpg

#livre #Tchétchénie #drogue #Kosovo

Dick Marty, un cri pour la justice

https://i.imgur.com/74gxQ1G.png

Procureur, politicien, enquêteur spécial, le Tessinois Dick Marty est une figure internationale connue pour sa droiture et perspicacité. Infatigable, il a mené l’enquête sur les #prisons_secrètes que la #CIA avait créées en Europe après le 11 septembre pour les terroristes présumés. La torture y était largement pratiquée avec la bénédiction de Washington. Portrait d’un homme à qui rien ne fait peur.

▻https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/doc-a-la-une/video/dick-marty-un-cri-pour-la-justice?urn=urn:rts:video:10725798&id=10725798

#rendition_flights

Selected CIA Aircraft Routes and Rendition Flights 2001-2006

https://backspace.com/notes/images/cia_map_full.jpg

The image is a map of selected CIA aircraft routes between 2001 and 2006, some of which transported prisoners to foreign countries to be interrogated and tortured.

I worked with artist and geographer #Trevor_Paglen who provided the data. Trevor spent several years tracking down the flight information, and has a book out on his investigations, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (►https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/torture-taxi). See this interview with him (▻https://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/15/1342250) on Democracy Now! with co-author, journalist A.C. Thompson.

The map was also published in An Atlas of Radical Cartography (►http://www.an-atlas.com), Domus magazine as was displayed at MoMA PS1 and as a public billboard in Los Angeles in September 2006 as part of a series of public art installations about the war. Clockshop, a public arts organization in Los Angeles, funded the display.

▻https://backspace.com/is/in/the/house/work/pg/cia_flights.html

Torture Taxi. On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights

It’s no longer a secret: Since 9/11, the CIA has quietly kidnapped more than a hundred people and detained them at prisons throughout the world. It is called “extraordinary rendition,” and it is part of the largest U.S. clandestine operation since the end of the Cold War.

Some detainees have been taken to Egypt and Morocco to be tortured and interrogated. Others have been transported to secret CIA-run facilities in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, where they, too, have been tortured. Many of the kidnapped detainees have ended up at the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo, but others have been disappeared entirely.

In this first book to systematically investigate extraordinary rendition, an award-winning investigative journalist and a “military geographer” explore the CIA program in a series of journeys that takes them around the world. They travel to suburban Massachusetts to profile a CIA front company that supplies the agency with airplanes; to Smithfield, North Carolina, to meet pilots who fly CIA aircraft; to the San Francisco suburbs to study with a “planespotter” who tracks the CIA’s movements; and to Afghanistan, where the authors visit the notorious “Salt Pit” prison and meet released Afghan detainees.

They find that nearly five years after 9/11, the kidnappings have not stopped. On the contrary, the rendition program has been formalized, colluding with the military when necessary, and constantly changing its cover to remain hidden from sight.

https://cdn2.mhpbooks.com/2011/10/Torture-Taxi-229x300.jpg

The Council of Europe’s investigation into illegal transfers and secret detentions in Europe: a chronology

The European Court of Human Rights has so far delivered three judgments concerning CIA rendition and secret detention operations in Council of Europe member states (one against “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and two against Poland), and individual applications are currently pending against other states (Italy, Lithuania and Romania), many drawing on Senator Dick Marty’s investigations. The Court has published a thematic fact-sheet on cases involving secret detentions.

22 April 2015: In remarks to German news magazine Der Spiegel, former Romanian President Ion Iliascu admits to the existence of a secret CIA “site” in Romania. PACE President Anne Brasseur responds: “it is now up to the Romanian prosecutorial authorities to conduct a serious investigation into the facts, and to hold to account the perpetrators of any crimes committed in this context.”

11-12 March 2015: The deputies of the Council of Europe’s ministerial body - which oversees the execution of Court judgments - say they are concerned Mr Al Nashiri and Mr Abu Zubaydah, now interned at Guantanamo Bay, could face “flagrant denials of justice” if tried by Military Commission and ask the Polish authorities to urgently seek assurances from the US that they will not be tried using torture evidence or subjected to the death penalty. Poland swiftly does so.

24 July 2014: The European Court of Human Rights delivers landmark judgments in the Abu Zubaydah and Al Nashiri cases, finding that Poland was complicit in “CIA rendition, secret detention and interrogation operations on its territory” and that, by enabling the CIA to detain the applicants, it was exposing them to a serious risk of torture. After an appeal by the government is turned down on 16 February 2015, the rulings became final.

3 December 2013: The European Court of Human Rights holds a joint Chamber hearing in the Abu Zubaydah and Al Nashiri cases against Poland, listening to submissions from all parties, and posts the video online. It also holds a confidential hearing with the parties the day before the public hearing.
10 October 2013: The European Parliament, in a fresh resolution, deeply deplores the failures to respond to its earlier demands, and renews the call for proper investigations in Lithuania, Romania and Poland. It suggests the “climate of impunity” surrounding the CIA’s rendition programme may have enabled the mass surveillance by the NSA, recently revealed.

9 July 2013: In addition to his case against Lithuania, Mr Zubaydah also brings a case before the Strasbourg Court against Poland, similar to the case already brought by Mr Al Nashiri.

14 December 2012: The Court communicates to the Lithuanian Government the case of Abu Zubaydah v. Lithuania. Mr Zubaydah says he was illegally held and ill-treated in a secret prison in Lithuania run by the CIA.

13 December 2012: The European Court of Human Rights issues its first judgment in a case involving secret prisons on European soil when its Grand Chamber finds “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” in violation of the Convention for its part in the torture and rendition of German car-salesman Khaled El-Masri. It is greeted as a landmark judgment.

18 September 2012: The Strasbourg Court communicates to the Romanian Government the case of Al Nashiri v. Romania. Mr Al Nashiri – who also brought the earlier case against Poland – alleges Romania knowingly and intentionally enabled the CIA to detain him and has refused to date to properly acknowledge or investigate any wrongdoing.

11 September 2012: PACE President Jean-Claude Mignon welcomes the latest resolution of the European Parliament, adopted on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which calls on Lithuania, Poland and Romania to open or resume independent investigations into allegations that they colluded with the CIA to hold and interrogate terrorism suspects in secret prisons. National investigations so far have been “painfully inadequate”, he points out, but the process of accountability continues.

10 July 2012: The European Court of Human Rights communicates to the Polish Government the case of Al Nashiri v. Poland. Mr Al Nashiri, suspected of terrorist acts and now in Guantanamo, says he was tortured in Poland while in US custody following rendition, and that Poland “knowingly and intentionally” enabled his secret detention.

16 May 2012: The European Court of Human Rights holds its first hearing on a rendition-related case, in the El-Masri case, and posts the video online. This case is heard before the Grand Chamber, an indication of its significance.

8 December 2011: Reacting to reported confirmation of a secret CIA prison in Romania, Dick Marty says: “Five years ago we put forward substantial elements of proof of a secret CIA prison in Romania. There have been years of official denials since then. But the ‘dynamic of truth’ has run its course [...]. Those responsible for the crimes committed – and their cover-up – should now be held to account in a court of law.”

24 November 2011: Reporting on a September 2010 visit to Romania, the Council of Europe’s Anti-Torture Committee (CPT) questions the absence of a judicial inquiry into the allegations of a secret CIA prison in the country. In their response, the Romanian authorities repeat that there is no evidence of this, and that – in the absence of proof – for them the subject is closed.

22 November 2011: The European Court of Human Rights communicates to the Italian Government the case of Nasr and Ghali v. Italy, and asks the parties to answer a number of questions. Egyptian imam Abu Omar alleges he was kidnapped in Rome and transferred to Egypt with Italian involvement, and then detained in secret for several months in inhuman conditions.

6 October 2011: In his last report for PACE, Dick Marty evaluates the various judicial or parliamentary inquiries launched after his reports five years ago named European governments which had hosted CIA secret prisons or colluded in rendition and torture. Overall, he concludes that unjustified resort to the doctrine of “state secrets” is still too often shielding secret services from scrutiny of involvement in human rights violations.

5 September 2011: In two comments marking the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks – addressing, in turn, renditions and secret detentions – Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg echoes Dick Marty’s repeated calls for accountability on the part of European governments.

19 May 2011: Reporting on a June 2010 visit to Lithuania, the Council of Europe’s Anti-Torture Committee (CPT) questions both the promptness and thoroughness of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s pre-trial investigation into abuse of office, then under way. In their response, the Lithuanian authorities report that “no objective data concerning the fact of abuse (or another criminal act) were collected during the pre-trial investigation” and therefore no charges will be brought.

28 September 2010: The European Court of Human Rights becomes involved in the first specific case involving rendition and secret prisons when it communicates the case of El-Masri v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” to the authorities, and asks the parties to answer a number of questions. Mr El-Masri, apparently mistaken by the CIA for another man of the same name, was kidnapped and interrogated in a Skopje hotel for 23 days before being transferred to US agents.

21 August 2009: Reacting to a news report that Lithuania was the site of a third secret CIA prison in Europe, Dick Marty says his own sources seem to confirm this information, and calls for “a full, independent and credible investigation” into what occurred on the outskirts of Vilnius: “Denial and evasion are no longer credible,” he says.

6 November 2008: Testifying at the Milan trial of CIA and Italian secret service agents accused of kidnapping Abu Omar, Dick Marty says this is one of the few cases involving the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program to come to court. The invocation of ’state secrets’ by the Italian government must not - as in other judicial or parliamentary procedures in the US and Germany - be allowed to block the trial: “Let justice take its course!” he declares.

4 April 2008: In a statement, Dick Marty criticises the Committee of Ministers for its response and accuses European governments of “hypocrisy” for continuing to deny their involvement in secret detentions and illegal renditions, unless forced to do so. “The United States made a choice - which I think was a wrong choice - to fight the war on terror using illegal means, but they at least made it openly and defend it,” he points out.

16 January 2008: In a reply, the Committee of Ministers – representing the 47 Council of Europe governments – says only that it will “carefully consider” the Secretary General’s proposals to control the activities of foreign intelligence services in Europe, noting that they “reached deeply into sensitive areas of national security, law and practice”. To date, it has not yet implemented any of these proposals.

27 June 2007: The plenary Assembly – bringing together over 300 legislators from 47 European countries – backs Mr Marty’s report and urges better oversight of foreign intelligence services operating in Europe. The use of “state secrecy” laws to protect wrongful acts by secret services should be limited, the parliamentarians say.

8 June 2007: Presenting a second report following several months of additional inquiry, Swiss Senator Dick Marty reveals evidence that US “high-value detainees”, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were held in secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania. Based on extensive, cross-referenced testimony from serving and former intelligence agents, he also alleges a series of partly secret decisions among NATO allies in 2001 which enabled the CIA to carry out illegal activities in Europe.

14 February 2007: In a report, the European Parliament comes to similar conclusions to Mr Marty, saying EU countries “turned a blind eye” to extraordinary renditions across their territory and airspace.

6 September 2006: The Committee of Ministers – representing the 47 governments of the Council of Europe – decides only to “take note” of the Secretary General’s proposals for greater control over the activities of security services operating in Europe, declining any immediate follow-up. The decision comes on the very same day that US President George Bush admits the existence of secret CIA prisons. On the other hand, PACE President René van der Linden reacts by declaring that kidnapping people and torturing them in secret “is what criminals do, not democratic governments”. Such activities will not make citizens safer in the long run, he says. The admission is a vindication of Senator Marty’s work, he adds.

30 June 2006: Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis makes concrete proposals to European governments for laws to control the activities of foreign intelligence services in Europe, reviewing state immunity, and making better use of existing controls on over-flights, including requiring landing and search of civil flights engaged in state functions.

27 June 2006: The plenary Assembly debates Mr Marty’s first report and calls for the dismantling of the system of secret prisons, oversight of foreign intelligence services operating in Europe and a common strategy for fighting terrorism which does not undermine human rights.

14 June 2006: Analysing a second round of replies from governments to his inquiry, Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis concludes in a supplementary report that laws to protect Europeans against human rights violations by foreign intelligence agents are “the exception rather than the rule”. Confirming his earlier conclusions, he says current controls on civil air traffic are inadequate, while State aircraft in transit are rarely checked.

7 June 2006: Presenting his first report, Dick Marty says he has exposed a global “spider’s web” of illegal US detentions and transfers, and alleges collusion in this system by 14 Council of Europe member states, 7 of whom may have violated the rights of named individuals.

17 March 2006: In an opinion, legal experts from the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission say that, under the European Convention on Human Rights and other international laws, member states should refuse to allow transit of prisoners where there is a risk of torture. If this is suspected, they should search civil planes or refuse overflight to state planes.

1 March 2006: Analysing governments’ replies to a separate inquiry using powers under the European Convention on Human Rights, Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis says Europe appears to be “a happy hunting-ground for foreign security services”. Presenting a first report, he says that the rules governing activities of secret services – especially foreign ones – appear inadequate in many member states, and that current air traffic regulations do not safeguard against abuse. Immunity for foreign agents who commit crimes in Europe should not extend to serious human rights violations.

7 November 2005: Following media reports, the Parliamentary Assembly appoints Senator Dick Marty, a Swiss former prosecutor, to conduct a parliamentary inquiry into “alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states”. PACE President René van der Linden declares: “This issue goes to the very heart of the Council of Europe’s human rights mandate.”

▻https://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/News/FeaturesManager-View-EN.asp?ID=362

#chronologie

Premier rapport de Dick Marty, 12.06.2006 :
Alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers ofdetainees involving Council of Europe member states
▻http://semantic-pace.net/tools/pdf.aspx?doc=aHR0cDovL2Fzc2VtYmx5LmNvZS5pbnQvbncveG1sL1hSZWYvWDJILURX

Deuxième rapport de Dick Marty, 08.06.2007

Dick Marty: ‘high-value detainees’ were held at secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania

PACE rapporteur Dick Marty (Switzerland, ALDE) today revealed new evidence that US “high-value detainees” were held in secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania during the period 2002-5 and alleges a series of partly secret decisions among NATO allies in October 2001 which provided the basic framework for illegal CIA activities in Europe.

In an explanatory memorandum made public today, Mr Marty says he has cross-referenced the credible testimonies of over 30 members of intelligence services in the US and Europe with analysis of “data strings” from the international flight planning system.

▻https://pace.coe.int/en/news/1487