| | Europe: Partners in crime: Europe's role in US renditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | As the allegations mounted in 2005, questions were increasingly raised in European parliaments and criminal investigations into individual cases gathered steam in Italy, Germany and Spain.(16) By the end of the year the Council of Europe had launched a two-pronged inquiry into alleged CIA activities in Europe. |
 | | According to international human rights law, at all stages of Khaled el-Masri’s ordeal in Macedonia, from his arrest and unlawful detention to his transfer out of the country, Macedonia’s officials are responsible for the violations he suffered, and may be considered complicit in the alleged violations by US officials. |
 | | Speaking before parliament on 25 October 2005, the Minister for Migration, Barbro Holmberg, dismissed the assertion that the Committee against Torture’s conclusions gave rise to an obligation to pay compensation, declaring that the Committee’s recommendations were not binding. |
| www.amnestyusa.org /news/document.do?id=ENGEUR010082006 (17104 words) |