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    European Court of Human Rights: Lithuania & Romania complicit in inhuman treatment,secret detention & rendition Meanwhile in US, CIA official who oversaw is now CIA director-& men still detained

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    Lithuania/Romania: Ruling Highlights CIA Complicity - Today’s ruling by Strasbourg shines another bright light on grave violations that European governments must investigate

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    These are important, overdue victories--and also a reminder of the shameful failure of American institutions to reckon with the US's central responsibility for the same crimes. via

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    These decisions are important but much more needs to be done. Harms to scores more former CIA detainees unaccounted for and many victims lives have been completely destroyed, like these two former CIA detainees whose cases we most recently documented:

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    Afghanistan is a big black hole. The CIA held most of its detainees in at least four sites there but there has been no justice for those actions. Chief ICC prosecutor has requested an investigation be opened into these CIA and other abuses but so far request has not been granted

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    And where is the US? They are principally responsible but they have done nothing but tried to block all these other accountability efforts. In fact they just promoted Gina Haspel, deeply involved in CIA torture, to head the CIA.

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    And European court has already held Poland and Macedonia responsible for complicity in CIA abuses in their countries and ordered those governments to pay.

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    UK, Sweden, Canada, Australia have all at least provided compensation to former CIA rendition/torture victims and Guantanamo detainees for harms caused and in some cases apologized. See 106 of report plus

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    New report: The Pentagon program that transfers excess military equipment to law enforcement agencies is efficient, effective, and responsive to oversight. But these traits are unlikely to change perceptions that it contributes to police militarization.

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    Landmark rulings expose Romanian and Lithuanian complicity in CIA secret detention And if I might , the country that facilitated my rendition w/o accountability This is a big day for

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    A potentially uncomfortable development for the new C.I.A. director: Europe's top human rights court has censured two countries for their roles in the agency's post-9/11 rendition program

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    Lithuania/Romania: Ruling Highlights CIA Torture Complicity

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    Lithuania and Romania hosted secret CIA prisons a decade ago and the authorities in those countries were aware that detainees were held there illegally, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled

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    Article Three of the European Convention on Human Rights, headed "Prohibition of Torture", says: "No-one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." See - You can actually report it was .

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    The has grossly backslid on this - they used the word "torment" for a long time, then finally adopted "torture" a couple of years ago. Pull your socks up, guys.

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    ECHR judges unanimously cited violations of Article 3 prohibiting torture, Article 5 on rights to liberty and security, Article 8 on respect for private life and Article 13 on the right to an effective [legal] remedy. Hey the judges didn’t cite phrases by rights groups

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