EU rebukes Poland and Romania over rendition role

The European commission today rebuked Poland and Romania for their late responses to requests to clarify their role in the US extraordinary rendition programme

The EU justice and home affairs commissioner, Franco Frattini, wrote to Warsaw and Bucharest last July urging them to conduct in-depth inquiries into the findings by the European parliament indicating their complicity in extraordinary rendition – the controversial practice of transporting terror suspects to secret locations where they risk being tortured

"We have not received a reply from Poland and the information from Romania was not considered complete. Frattini sent reminders in January and we're currently awaiting replies,"

Britain yesterday admitted that US rendition flights carrying terror suspects twice landed on British soil.

Human rights groups have demanded a full accounting of the CIA's rendition programme

"It's high time the agency is held accountable,"

February 22 2008