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Guardian: Poland admits role in CIA rendition programme
Warsaw air control service confirms that at least six CIA flights landed at disused military air base in northern Republic of Poland in 2003. The Polish authorities have for the first time admitted their involvement in the CIA’s secret programme for the rendition of high-level terrorist suspects from Iraq and Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, it emerged today.
RT: Poland admits to CIA planes landing on its territory
Official flight logs released Monday confirm Republic of Poland hosted aircraft linked to a CIA program for secretly moving and holding terrorism suspects. It adds to the allegations that the country could have hosted a CIA prison.
The New York Times: Flight Data Show Rendition Planes Landed in Poland
Two human rights groups released government flight logs Monday that showed aircraft linked to the Central Intelligence Agency’s program for secretly detaining, moving and housing terrorism suspects had landed in the Republic of Poland.
The Wall Street Journal: Poland Delivers Official Confirmation of CIA Flights
The Polish aviation authority Monday delivered the first official confirmation that airplanes operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency landed in the Republic of Poland in 2003. According to several unconfirmed reports in the past, the planes may have carried detainees kept at a secret detention facility somewhere in the woods of northern Republic of Poland.
Open Society Justice Initiative: Fresh Evidence Shows Polish Government, CIA Cooperation on Renditio
Warsaw—Official flight records obtained by rights groups confirm that at least six CIA rendition flights landed in the Republic of Poland in 2003 and reveal details of a cover-up by U.S. and Polish authorities. The Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PANSA) provided the flight logs in response to a freedom of information request filed by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in collaboration with the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Silajdzic: Ethnic cleansing continues 15 years after war
As the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic resumed Monday, March 1st, in the Netherlands, a member of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s rotating presidency Haris Silajdzic (on right) said that, in effect, “ethnic cleansing” continues — 15 years after a brutal civil war there ended.
Open call: Human losses in Croatia
Documenta calls on all citizens who have any information about the victims of war in the Republic of Croatia (killed, disappeared, tortured, imprisoned… ), perpetrators, witnesses and / or text, photo or video documentation of war crimes committed during the war to contact and join Documenta in creating a true and based on the facts views of the war happenings in the period from 1991 – 1995, and the complete list of victims of war.
International standards distance learning program for lawyers launched
“Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers” program has been started by a seminar in the Belarusian Human Rights House (HRH) in exile in Vilnius on 19-21 February. The kick-off event aimed at letting 26 Belarusian participants know each other and providing basic skills of learning human rights via distance program they are about to go through during one year to come.
Iran: petition drive calling for the release of journalists and writers
In response to the brutal crackdown against journalists and writers in Islamic Republic of Iran, Index on Censorship has joined a coalition of leading press freedom and free expression groups to
launch a petition drive calling for the release of those imprisoned.