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Investigator: US 'outsourced' torture
(AP)
Updated: 2006-01-24 19:48

The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday there was evidence the United States outsourced torture to other countries and it was likely European governments knew about it.


Swiss politician Dick Marty gestures during a seminar in Bucharest November 25, 2005. Marty said on Tuesday there was much evidence of 'outsourcing of torture' by the United States but he had not so far uncovered firm evidence the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe. [Reuters]

But Swiss senator Dick Marty said there was no formal evidence so far of the existence of clandestine detention centers in Romania or Poland as alleged by the New York-based Human Rights Watch.

"There is a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the existence of a system of 'relocation' or 'outsourcing' of torture," Marty said in a report presented to the Council of Europe, the human rights watchdog investigating the alleged secret prisons.

The report said more than 100 terror suspects may have been transferred to countries where they faced torture or ill treatment in recent years.

"It is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least their intelligence services, were unaware," Marty said in the report.

The Council of Europe launched its probe after allegations surfaced in November that U.S. agents interrogated key al-Qaida suspects at clandestine prisons in eastern Europe and transported some suspects to other countries passing through Europe.
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