An Italian European Union minister wants human rights officials to investigate “strong and specific” evidence that the Ukrainian government was complicit in building a prison on its military base to hold and torture CIA detainees, reports the EU Observer.
The minister cites a document suggesting that a Gulfstream jet known to be used by the CIA landed in the country five times in August 2005, with Ukrainian approval.
The Ukrainian government calls the charges “nonsense.” A previous report, adopted by the EU legislature, concluded there were “over 1,000″ secret stopover flights in the EU since 2001, and that detention facilities were known to exists, “particularly in Poland and Romania.”
Source:
“EU investigator targets Ukraine in fresh CIA allegations”
EU Observer, November 14, 2007
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