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"The European Parliament must do its utmost to ensure that the intelligence agencies do not use the war on terror as justification for torture, secret prisons or even a
where there is resistance to this.
Mr President, let me quote the evidence the British Ambassador in Uzbekistan, Mr Craig Murray, gave to the temporary committee of the European Parliament: ‘I have seen plenty of evidence of torture in Uzbekistan. I have come across a file of a detainee who died during interrogation because of waterboarding in boiling water’. Giving evidence, another official, Sir Michael Wood, stated that, ‘receipt of intelligence gained under torture is not illegal under the UN Convention Against Torture provided we do not do the torture ourselves.’
Can there be any greater mockery of human rights?
Mr President, I call on you to reopen the parliamentary inquiry and to reconvene the temporary committee on the extraordinary rendition and imprisonment of CIA prisoners in Europe."@en1
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