Landmark rulings expose Poland’s role in CIA secret detention and torture

Headline Title: Landmark rulings expose Poland’s role in CIA secret detention and torture 24 July 2014 Poland is the first European Union member state to be found complicit in the USA’s rendition, secret detention, and torture of alleged terrorism suspects, Amnesty International said as it applauded two landmark human rights judgments handed down today. The European Court of Human Rights found that the Polish government colluded with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to establish a secret prison at Stare Kiejkuty, which operated between 2002 and 2005. At the site, 180…

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