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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Daily Update: EU Parliament Endorses Report on CIA/Rendition
The EU Parliament strongly condemned the actions of member states that supported/ colluded with the U.S. to render individuals to third countries to be tortured. "This is a report that doesn't allow anyone to look the other way. We must be vigilant that what has been happening in the past five years may never happen again" said Italian MEP, and report drafter, Giovanni Fava.
The report defines extraordinary renditions as: "an individual suspected of involvement in terrorism is illegally abducted, arrested and/or transferred into the custody of US officials and/or transported to another country for interrogation which, in the majority of cases involves incommunicado detention and torture".
The EU Parliament also encouraged the formation of an Independent Commission to look into the rendition issue.
C-Posted from www.endtorture.net (A Citizens for Global Solutions Resource Center)
The report defines extraordinary renditions as: "an individual suspected of involvement in terrorism is illegally abducted, arrested and/or transferred into the custody of US officials and/or transported to another country for interrogation which, in the majority of cases involves incommunicado detention and torture".
The EU Parliament also encouraged the formation of an Independent Commission to look into the rendition issue.
C-Posted from www.endtorture.net (A Citizens for Global Solutions Resource Center)