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Claudia Ciobanu the Bucharest journalist writing on the issues of transition within Romania and Bulgaria, has published an article on the IPS News Service titled ‘Poland Cornered Over Its Secret Prisons’ in which she states “A Polish official investigation into the existence of a secret CIA prison on its territory is being stalled, according to official sources, while pressure on the country to tell the truth mounts. … [a] report to the recent Globalising Torture study of Open Society Foundations, claim Poland hosted a secret CIA prison used in the extraordinary rendition programme from the end of 2002. Under this programme, the U.S. detained and interrogated terrorism suspects in Europe. …Poland seems to be this new location. …officials from governments and intelligence services of various countries, including Poland and the U.S., interviewed by UN and EU bodies, NGOs and journalists, point to the fact that the Polish site was key to the CIA scheme. Those sources continue to speak under the condition of anonymity because both Poland and the U.S. refuse to officially reveal details about how rendition functioned. In Poland, a prosecutors’ investigation started in 2008 has recently taken a dubious turn. Until a year ago, the investigation was conducted by the Warsaw prosecutors’ office, under two successive prosecutors. …After this news came out, the case was moved to Krakow. Mikolaj Pietrzak, the Polish lawyer [stated] “It is extremely irregular that a case be shifted to three different prosecutors, and the fact that in the last year nothing has gone forward apparently is a very sad statement about the investigation.” … Pietrzak, who has at one point seen the full file of the Polish investigation, claims: “This case is going to be very difficult to overturn, because there is a lot of evidence, and you simply cannot pretend that what is there in the prosecutors’ file doesn’t exist.”  Inspired by Claudia Ciobanu, IPS News Service ow.ly/j4E5X Image source Human Wrongs Watch ow.ly/j4DmR Investigation into secret CIA prison being stalled (April 12 2013)

Claudia Ciobanu the Bucharest journalist writing on the issues of transition within Romania and Bulgaria, has published an article on the IPS News Service titled ‘Poland Cornered Over Its Secret Prisons’ in which she states “A Polish official investigation into the existence of a secret CIA prison on its territory is being stalled, according to official sources, while pressure on the country to tell the truth mounts. … [a] report to the recent Globalising Torture study of Open Society Foundations, claim Poland hosted a secret CIA prison used in the extraordinary rendition programme from the end of 2002. Under this programme, the U.S. detained and interrogated terrorism suspects in Europe. …Poland seems to be this new location. …officials from governments and intelligence services of various countries, including Poland and the U.S., interviewed by UN and EU bodies, NGOs and journalists, point to the fact that the Polish site was key to the CIA scheme. Those sources continue to speak under the condition of anonymity because both Poland and the U.S. refuse to officially reveal details about how rendition functioned. In Poland, a prosecutors’ investigation started in 2008 has recently taken a dubious turn. Until a year ago, the investigation was conducted by the Warsaw prosecutors’ office, under two successive prosecutors. …After this news came out, the case was moved to Krakow. Mikolaj Pietrzak, the Polish lawyer [stated] “It is extremely irregular that a case be shifted to three different prosecutors, and the fact that in the last year nothing has gone forward apparently is a very sad statement about the investigation.” … Pietrzak, who has at one point seen the full file of the Polish investigation, claims: “This case is going to be very difficult to overturn, because there is a lot of evidence, and you simply cannot pretend that what is there in the prosecutors’ file doesn’t exist.”

 

Inspired by Claudia Ciobanu, IPS News Service ow.ly/j4E5X Image source Human Wrongs Watch ow.ly/j4DmR

Václav Havel the 75 year old Czech playwright, poet, dissident and former President of the Czech Republic who recently died, has been honored in an article published by Mark LeVine. Levine recalls Havel’s role in the Velvet Revolution and connection to the Arab Spring, “as a model for understanding, or engaging in, the present revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa … While it looks increasingly dark in Egypt, Syria and other Arab countries today, if the protesters in the streets can solidify their co-ordination with civil society and, as was so crucial in Poland, involve religious leaders in fighting truly to take down the system rather than merely get a large piece of it for themselves, there is little doubt that in a very short period of time the world’s newest generation of revolutionaries will manage to secure the freedom for which they are fighting…”

 

Inspired by Mark LeVine http://ow.ly/8eWzq image source Ondřej Sláma http://ow.ly/8eWxy

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