The Controversy of Secret Prisons in the US and Around the World

May 26th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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International organizations and human rights activists denounce the
United States for maintaining secret prisons in various countries, where
prisoners of the so-called war against terrorism are abused and
tortured.

They are the subject of the controversial issue of
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) prisons recently uncovered, after
reviewing a case statement which dates from 2002 and 2003, such as a
denunciation against such prisons in Poland.

Specialists are of
the opinion that the transmission of the case by the Attorney from
Warsaw to Krakow is an attempt by the Polish authorities to attenuate
the effects of a scandal that is gaining ground, commented the newspaper
The Voice of Russia.

Thus, a delegation headed by the Chairman
of the Committee on Civil Liberties and Interior Affairs of the
European Parliament, Juan Fernández-López Aguilar, demanded an inquiry
last April about the secret prisons in Lithuania, recognized by the
Government in October 2011.

This year, it was learned that the
alleged al-Qaeda member, Abu Zubaydah, arrested and a prisoner at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10 years ago, was moved from Morocco to Jordan via
a Lithuanian prison, in the so-called CIA “secret flights,” a
publication reported.

The euro deputies also dialogued with
representatives of the Lithuanian Institute of Observation of Human
Rights and the Civil Air Administration of the country for data on the
alleged connivance of that Executive to support the “extraordinary
rendition program,” initiated in 2001 by the administration of George W.
Bush.

American civil servants exerted strong pressure so that
arrest warrants did not apply against CIA officials linked to the
kidnapping of a German citizen mistakenly classified as a terrorist in
2003, revealed the site Wikileaks.

John M. Koenig, of the U.S.
mission in Berlin, threatened the Teutonic government for “carefully
measuring each step of their involvement in their relationship with the
United States,” in the case of Khaled Masri, a German of Lebanese
descent.

Masri said that he was detained on the border with
Macedonia, sent to a secret prison and tortured before it was recognized
that it was a mistake and they freed him, enumerated the New York
Times.

However, Washington also employed war ships from the
Navy to locate defendants far away from judicial court procedures
established for their detention.

The association of British
Jurists Reprieve, revealed in detail the secret CIA flights, in a report
produced in 2009, explaining that the White House would have chosen to
escape any legal action by installing secret prisons in warships that
cross international waters.

Identified were at least 17
floating prisons, including the USS Ashland, USS Bataan and USS Peleliu,
amphibious assault ships that have the particularity of having easy
prison cells, the British newspaper, The Guardian, pointed out.

Since 2001, more than 80,000 people have passed through these prisons, it said.

The scandal of secret CIA prisons exploded in February 2005, after several revelations in the Washington Post.

Data published by the newspaper confirmed that the CIA hid the most
dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists in what are called Black Sites (Dark
Places) located in Eastern Europe, such as Lithuania, Poland and
Romania, and the others listed as “allies.”

In these prisons,
the inmates were subjected to psychological pressure and torture, such
as a mock drowning, sleep deprivation and other interrogation methods
banned by the UN Convention on Human Rights, the newspaper added.

An expert from the International Institute of Humanitarian Research
Policy of Poland, Vladimir Bruter, explained that Washington used its
allies in order to not violate the law on their own territory.

The existence of U.S. prisons in several countries is illegal, and it is
clear that it will reverberate negatively on President Barack Obama,
who aspires for reelection in approximately six months, warned Bruter.

Despite being an election promise, the Democratic administration has
failed to close the controversial prison at Guantanamo, where like in
Abu Ghraib (Iraq) and Bagram (Afghanistan), prisoners were tortured, as
seen in photos that show the vexations that sparked public criticism in
2006.

During his tenure, former Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld authorized the CIA and the military in Iraq to employ “hard”
and “precise” interrogation techniques on suspects arrested after the
attacks of September 11, 2001.

He also gave the green light,
with the connivance of higher ups in positions in the administration of
George W. Bush, for the installation of secret prisons around the world.

Prensa Latina – May 24, 2012 – Pravda.ru

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