Romania must come clean over secret prisons

Headline Title: Romania must come clean over secret prisons 09 December 2011 The Romanian authorities must re-open an investigation into CIA secret detention centres on its territory, Amnesty International said today after new evidence of secret prisons was revealed by a German newspaper. Süddeutsche Zeitung today published compelling fresh evidence that the CIA rendered and tortured “suspects of terrorism” in European states including Romania in the years following the 11 September terror attacks. "For many years, we have urged the Romanian government to fully explain its involvement…

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