OS SÚBDITOS PORTUGUESES DE GEORGE W BUSH
Os súbditos portugueses de Bush, Durão Barroso, Paulo Portas, Santana Lopes e José Sócrates já mandaram um militar português para o cemitério e choraram as habituais lágrimas de crocodilo.
A brutal Ditadura imperial de Bush no Afeganistão caça seres humanos para serem torturados até à morte e m Guantánamo e sucursais…
O carácter criminoso da classe política da União Europeia vê-se no jornal «The Guardian»…
O nazismo da CIA é conhecido e apoiado pelos guardiães dos Direitos Humanos, isto é, a União Europeia e a NATO, dos outros, é claro, dos deles nem pensar…
Em Democracia pratica-se a Tortura. A diferença é que os jornais que não lambem as botas ao poder falam nas Torturas Secretas, até à Morte, algumas, embora elas continuem...
Government challenged to account for 'torture flights' Richard Norton-TaylorWednesday November 30, 2005The Guardian
The government and senior police officers will be taken to court unless they provide evidence they have investigated reports that CIA "torture flights" have landed in Britain or used British airspace, the Guardian has learned.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the civil rights group, has written to Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, and to chief constables, giving them two weeks to disclose what they know about the flights and demand assurances from the US that they would stop.
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If they refuse to show they have investigated the allegations, Liberty will take them to court in 14 days to demand a judicial review. It is illegal under British and international law, and under European and UN human rights conventions, to be complicit in torture. Under the 1988 Criminal Justice Act, torture is a criminal offence wherever it is committed.
Liberty has acted after the Guardian reported in September that aircraft used in secret operations involving the transfer of detained terrorist suspects to interrogation centres where they are likely to be tortured - known as "rendition" or "extraordinary rendition" - have flown into the UK at least 210 times since the September 11 2001 attacks on the US.
A 26-strong fleet run by the CIA has used 19 British airports and RAF bases, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Luton, Bournemouth and Belfast, RAF Northolt in north London, and RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. The most used airport is Prestwick near Glasgow, which CIA aircraft have flown into and out from more than 75 times, the Guardian reported. The Commons foreign affairs committee has accused the government of having a "policy of obfuscation" and not answering questions "with the transparency and accountability required".
Ministers have sidestepped parliamentary questions about the flights. While defence ministers say they keep records of all civil registered flights landing at military airfields, details of passengers are only required if they leave the airfield.
The Foreign Office has said only that the government is "not aware of the use of their territory or airspace for the purposes of 'extraordinary rendition'".
The answers leave open the questions of whether the government has turned a blind eye to flights whose purpose the US has not told them, and what records it holds of flights where passengers have not left the aircraft.
Peers are also tabling an amendment to the terror bill going through the Lords obliging the police or Customs to take action against rendition.
The Council of Europe, which is responsible for monitoring breaches of the European convention on human rights, is demanding information from member states about the flights.
Terry Davis, the council's secretary general, has opened an inquiry into "recent reports suggesting that terrorist suspects may have been secretly detained in or transported through" European countries. He has given them until February 21 to respond. Spanish police have traced some 40 suspected CIA agents believed to have taken part in secret flights carrying detained or kidnapped Islamist terrorist suspects through Palma, Majorca to jails in Afghanistan, Egypt and other countries. Germany and Italy are investigating similar flights.
On Monday, Franco Frattini, the European justice and home affairs commissioner, said there would be "serious consequences" if reports of CIA jails in Europe were true.
A brutal Ditadura imperial de Bush no Afeganistão caça seres humanos para serem torturados até à morte e m Guantánamo e sucursais…
O carácter criminoso da classe política da União Europeia vê-se no jornal «The Guardian»…
O nazismo da CIA é conhecido e apoiado pelos guardiães dos Direitos Humanos, isto é, a União Europeia e a NATO, dos outros, é claro, dos deles nem pensar…
Em Democracia pratica-se a Tortura. A diferença é que os jornais que não lambem as botas ao poder falam nas Torturas Secretas, até à Morte, algumas, embora elas continuem...
Government challenged to account for 'torture flights' Richard Norton-TaylorWednesday November 30, 2005The Guardian
The government and senior police officers will be taken to court unless they provide evidence they have investigated reports that CIA "torture flights" have landed in Britain or used British airspace, the Guardian has learned.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, the civil rights group, has written to Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, and to chief constables, giving them two weeks to disclose what they know about the flights and demand assurances from the US that they would stop.
Article continues
If they refuse to show they have investigated the allegations, Liberty will take them to court in 14 days to demand a judicial review. It is illegal under British and international law, and under European and UN human rights conventions, to be complicit in torture. Under the 1988 Criminal Justice Act, torture is a criminal offence wherever it is committed.
Liberty has acted after the Guardian reported in September that aircraft used in secret operations involving the transfer of detained terrorist suspects to interrogation centres where they are likely to be tortured - known as "rendition" or "extraordinary rendition" - have flown into the UK at least 210 times since the September 11 2001 attacks on the US.
A 26-strong fleet run by the CIA has used 19 British airports and RAF bases, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Birmingham, Luton, Bournemouth and Belfast, RAF Northolt in north London, and RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. The most used airport is Prestwick near Glasgow, which CIA aircraft have flown into and out from more than 75 times, the Guardian reported. The Commons foreign affairs committee has accused the government of having a "policy of obfuscation" and not answering questions "with the transparency and accountability required".
Ministers have sidestepped parliamentary questions about the flights. While defence ministers say they keep records of all civil registered flights landing at military airfields, details of passengers are only required if they leave the airfield.
The Foreign Office has said only that the government is "not aware of the use of their territory or airspace for the purposes of 'extraordinary rendition'".
The answers leave open the questions of whether the government has turned a blind eye to flights whose purpose the US has not told them, and what records it holds of flights where passengers have not left the aircraft.
Peers are also tabling an amendment to the terror bill going through the Lords obliging the police or Customs to take action against rendition.
The Council of Europe, which is responsible for monitoring breaches of the European convention on human rights, is demanding information from member states about the flights.
Terry Davis, the council's secretary general, has opened an inquiry into "recent reports suggesting that terrorist suspects may have been secretly detained in or transported through" European countries. He has given them until February 21 to respond. Spanish police have traced some 40 suspected CIA agents believed to have taken part in secret flights carrying detained or kidnapped Islamist terrorist suspects through Palma, Majorca to jails in Afghanistan, Egypt and other countries. Germany and Italy are investigating similar flights.
On Monday, Franco Frattini, the European justice and home affairs commissioner, said there would be "serious consequences" if reports of CIA jails in Europe were true.
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