Investigator Says
US exported torture via Europe
A European investigator said yesterday there was convincing evidence that Washington sent detainees to third countries to be tortured but no "irrefutable evidence" of the existence of secret CIA prisons in Europe.
There was "a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the existence of a system of relocation or outsourcing of torture", Dick Marty said in an interim assessment presented to the Council of Europe rights organisation.
The report, however, found no direct evidence of CIA-run facilities on European soil.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "At this stage of the investigations, there is no formal, irrefutable evidence of the existence of secret CIA detention centres in Romania, Poland or any other country," he wrote.
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