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Mr President, Mr Frattini, a few national newspapers have, in actual fact, addressed this problem including, in particular, ‘The Washington Post’, which recently announced in its columns that secret prisons, run by the CIA, were allegedly located on EU territory and, more precisely, in Eastern Europe. The newspaper did not name the countries concerned, for security reasons, but let us note that an investigation led by the Human Rights Watch organisation indicated that, in 2002, a number of ‘ghost’ prisoners were in fact detained by the CIA.
Let us recall that the US Congress has also published a report referring to dubious practices employed by the United States when transferring prisoners to third countries with a view to having recourse to acts of torture during interrogations. Moreover, we are extremely concerned by the recent allegations indicating that the Bush Administration wants the US Congress to exempt the CIA from the ban on all forms of abuse of detainees.
We need these revelations to be placed under an intense spotlight. As you have said, it is not acceptable, in fact, to have areas of lawlessness in Europe and in the world. Hence we, in this Chamber, have always opposed the use of a legal vacuum in relation to the treatment inflicted on the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Under no circumstances can we therefore allow such prisons to exist in Europe. If the allegations are proven, then what is going on needs to be stopped immediately. If they are not proven, then the evidence needs to be gathered in order to silence the rumours.
We therefore call on the Commission to carry out an investigation into these allegations as, I might add, you recently pledged to do in front of the press, Mr Frattini. The results of this investigation must, as I think you will agree, be presented to the Members of the European Parliament. What measures does the Commission intend to adopt in order to ensure that the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, and in particular Article 4 thereof, are properly upheld throughout the territory of the European Union?
The best way to combat the fanatics and the terrorists, as we have already said – and it is not a useless exercise to repeat this – is indeed to pit our values of freedom and of the protection of fundamental rights against them."@en1
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