Former President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski admitted for the first time today that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has set up a secret prison in his country, but he denied knowledge of the torture of detainees in it.
This recognition came a day after a report by the US Senate that the CIA used the methods of torture in the interrogation of captured al-Qaeda operations following the September / September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
The report stated that Poland threatened to disrupt the transfer of al-Qaeda suspects to secret CIA prison in any Polish territory 11 years ago, but Poland has become more "flexible" while the CIA has paid a lot of money.
Kwasniewski said that when he was president of the country, between 1995 and 2005, the pressure on Washington to end the brutal interrogations that were practiced by the CIA in a secret prison was held in Poland in 2003.
Bush's insistence
Former Polish President and pointed out that former US President George W. Bush insisted that the detention and interrogation program used by the CIA involves significant benefits on the security side, however, the Senate report refuted this claim.
According to Kwasniewski's remarks, Poland agreed to strengthen intelligence cooperation with Washington in the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), but they were not surrounding the practice of the CIA to methods of torture against detainees.
The same speaker added that his country required the administration to be the treatment of detainees on their territory suspected of involvement in "terrorism" as prisoners of war, but Washington has never signed the memorandum of understanding in this section.
Previously, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the detainees rights violations in Poland file, and ordered authorities there to compensate them, and in July last court condemned the practice of torture in the Palestinian right and Saudi in Polish territory, later sent to Guantanamo.
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