European role in secret US flights criticised

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 24 June 2008.

ESO: Background information: Amnesty seeks rendition 'honesty' http://www.europeansources.info/record/amnesty-seeks-rendition-honesty/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition

Channel Four: War on Terror: Rendition flights http://www.channel4.com/news/war_on_terror/rendition_flights

Amnesty International (UK): Press Release, 24.6.08: Renditions: New report accuses European governments of complicity and isolation http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17797

Spiegel Online International, 21.8.09: CIA Accused of Third Torture Prison in Europe http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,644183,00.html

Amnesty International, 28.8.09: Lithuania: Investigation of allegations of CIA secret prison must be effective and impartial http://www.amnesty.org.nz/archived_news/lithuania-investigation-of-allegations-of-cia-secret-prison-must-be-effective-and-impartial+

Amnesty International: State of denial: Europe's role in rendition and secret detention, June 2008 http://amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR01/003/2008/en

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