Libertades Civiles
Update:Eurocontrol suggests asking governments to get it to release flight data
23 December 2011 – In response to Access Info's ongoing investigation into illegal "war on terror" rendition flights, the Director General of the European air traffic management body Eurocontrol, has written to Access Info researcher Lydia Medland stressing its readiness to release the data it holds if asked to do so by if Member States and that it does "try to be as transparent as possible."
Access Info and human rights group Reprieve recently criticised Eurocontrol for its refusal to release the data it holds about specific flights to the public (read more here).
In the 16 December 2011 letter, Eurocontrol's Director General David McMillan notes that the agreements by which it receives air traffic data prevent it from providing that information to the public, but that "we have, since 2006, provided data on specific flights hat have been investigated as 'rendition flights' [to Member States]. We would, of course, be happy to do so again, if requested by our Member States."
Access Info's Director Helen Darbishire today responded to Eurocontrol welcoming its commitment, in principle, to transparency, and noting that it will raise the matter with the Member States, particularly those which have proved most cooperative in the release of rendition flight data, as documented in Access Info's 19 December 2011 report Rendition on Record.
Letter from Eurocontrol
Response from Access Info
Rendition on Record
Report reveals Europe’s cover-up of CIA rendition-to-torture evidence
London/Madrid, 19 December 2011 - Just days after new details emerged of a secret CIA prison in Romania used to torture terrorism suspects, a report by two international human rights organisations shows that many European countries are suppressing evidence of their role in the USA’s notorious rendition programme.
The report, Rendition on Record, produced by open government specialists Access Info Europe and legal action charity Reprieve reveals how 28 countries have responded to a total of 67 requests for information about specific rendition flights carried out between 2002 and 2006.
While six European countries and the USA responded by releasing data, 16 others have either refused or failed to respond to questions about their complicity in the CIA’s illegal detention operations. The European air traffic management body Eurocontrol also refused on the grounds that it has no transparency obligations to the public.
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Denmark
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Una petición de información encuentra nuevos vuelos de la CIA y revela el fracaso de las investigaciones anteriores sobre el traslado de prisioneros
Nuevos documentos indicando los movimientos aéreos de la CIA a través de Europa prueban la necesidad de nuevas investigaciones sobre la complicidad de los estados de la Unión Europea con el programa de prisiones secretas de la CIA, según la organización benéfica Reprieve.
Los datos, centrados en Lituania pero asociados con la presunta actividad de la CIA en varios países de Europa, Norteamérica, Oriente Medio y el Norte de África, han sido identificados por Repreive y transmitidos al fiscal lituano.
La organización está solicitando a las autoridades lituanas que reabran su investigación sobre el traslado de detenidos y prisiones secretas de la CIA en su propio territorio, así como una investigación de la red de conexiones con otros países que la información recién descubierta ha identificado.
Reprieve solicita a Lituania que reabra la investigación sobre el "centro de tortura" tras descubrir un vuelo sospechoso en Vilniuse
Vilnius, 29 Septiembre - La organización Reprieve está solicitando que las autoridades lituanas reabran la fallida investigación sobre los "sitios negros" de la CIA, después de que una petición de Libertad de Información – hecha junto con Access Info Europe - descubriera un misterioso vuelo a la capital del país durante el período señalado. Las dos investigaciones oficiales lituanas sobre complicidad local en el traslado internacional de detenidos desconocían o no revelaban la existencia de este vuelo. Se pone así de manifiesto la insuficiencia de los anteriores intentos por llegar al fondo de unas acusaciones que han ido ganando ritmo en los últimos dos años.
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