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Poland to Appeal European Court Ruling on CIA Jails

Poland is to ask the European Court of Human Rights to re-consider its ruling that Poland violated its human rights commitments by hosting a secret CIA jail on its soil, the prosecutor general was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The court in Strasbourg said in a ruling issued in July this year that the CIA had used a facility in a Polish forest, code named “Quartz,” as a hub in its network of sites around the world where al-Qaida suspects were interrogated. Poland has always denied that...

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