Prosecutors applying to extend CIA prison investigation
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
27.05.2013 12:02
Prosecutors are applying to the Attorney General to extend the investigation into an alleged CIA prison in Poland, where renditioned prisoners have complained they were imprisoned and tortured.
“We are applying to extend the investigation for another four months,” Piotr Kosmaty, a spokesman at the state prosecutors' office in Krakow, where the investigation is based, has told the PAP news agency.
The current investigation was scheduled to end on 11 June.
Saudi Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Palestinian Abu Zubaida, who both claim they were imprisoned and tortured in Poland by CIA operatives, have already complained to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg of the inefficiency and lengthy nature of the Polish investigation, which has been under way since 2008.
The CIA detention centre is alleged to have been situated in Kiejkuty, near the military airport in Szymany in northern Poland.
Aleksander Kwasniewski and Leszek Miller – left wing president and prime minister respectively at the time of the allegations – have both denied any knowledge of a secret CIA prison on Polish soil. (pg)