According to the report released Tuesday, Romania hosted a secret CIA prison, where six suspects of terrorism were allegedly detained, and it allowed the use of its airspace for secret CIA operations.
The fact that Romania hosted a secret CIA prison (black site) was first published by Human Rights Watch on November 6, 2005. A Council of Europe report of 2006 confirmed that "the existence of secret detention facilities is assumed to have existed in Romania" and noted that Romania could be held liable for conspiracy in the CIA detention and extraordinary rendition program.
In august 2009, former U.S intelligence officials revealed for the New York Times that Kyle D. Foggo, at that time director of the CIA main logistics base in Frankfurt, oversaw the construction of three CIA detention centers, “each designed to accommodate six prisoners ". They added that the "jail was a renovated building on a busy street in Bucharest".
In 2011, a German television station revealed that the CIA prison in Romania, codenamed "Bright Light", was set-up in a government building in Bucharest, used by the National Registry Office for Classified Information (ORNISS).
The report identified the 136 people who were detained or transferred by the CIA and describes what was known about the dates and places where they were held.
Among those secretly detained by the CIA in Romania were, according to the report, Waleed Mohammed bin Attash (Tawfiq bin Attash), Janata Gul (Hammidullah), Riduan Isamuddin (Hamble), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri and Ramzi bin al-Shibh.
Romanian authorities vehemently denied hosting a CIA prison. The report stated that the Romanian Senate started in 2005 a superficial investigation and issued a report in 2008 claiming that there was no CIA detention centers in Romania nor any transfer flights of detainees in Romania and that no Romanian institution participated in this the program.
According to Amrit Singh, author of the report "Globalizing Torture" of Open Society, evidence was found that 25 countries in Europe, 14 in Asia and 13 in Africa have assisted the CIA, in addition to Canada and Australia. Among them Thailand, Romania and Lithuania, where prisons were established, and Denmark, which facilitated CIA air operations.
" The moral cost of these programs is not only borne by the United States, but also by the 54 countries they recruited to help them", Singh said.
Singh argued that the United States flagrantly violated national and international law and that their efforts to avoid responsibility "began to fail '.
In December, the European Court of Human Rights found that the CIA was responsible for the torture of Khalied el-Masri, a German citizen abducted by the agency and taken to Afghanistan in a case of mistaken identity.
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