Council of Europe Report on "Extraordinary Renditions."

Copy available here.

Some points worth noting:

The impression which some Governments tried to create at the beginning of this debate – that Europe was a victim of secret CIA plots – does not seem to correspond to reality. It is now clear although we are still far from having established the whole truth - that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities. Other countries ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know.

In this sense, it must be stated that to date, the following member States could be held responsible, at varying degrees, which are not always settled definitively, for violations of the rights of specific persons identified below (respecting the chronological order as far as possible):

• Sweden, in the cases of Ahmed Agiza and Mohamed Alzery;
• Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the cases of Lakhdar Boumediene, Mohamed Nechle, Hadj Boudella, Belkacem Bensayah, Mustafa Ait Idir and Saber Lahmar ( the “Algerian six“) ;
• The United Kingdom in the cases of Bisher Al-Rawi, Jamil El-Banna and Binyam Mohamed ;
• Italy, in the cases of Abu Omar and Maher Arar ;
• The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the case of Khaled El-Masri;
• Germany, in the cases of Abu Omar, of the “Algerian six”, and Khaled El-Masri;
  
• and Turkey, in the case of the “Algerian six”.
  

Some of these above mentioned states, and others, could be held responsible for collusion active or passive (in the sense of having tolerated or having been negligent in fulfilling the duty to supervise) - involving secret detention and unlawful inter-state transfers of a non specified number of persons whose identity so far remains unknown:

• Poland and Romania, concerning the running of secret detention centres;
• Germany, Turkey, Spain and Cyprus for being ’staging points’ for flights involving the unlawful transfer of detainees;
• Ireland, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Greece and Italy for being ‘stopovers’ for flights involving the unlawful transfer of detainees.