Georgia Sends Response to CoE on Alleged CIA Flights
On February 23, Georgia gave information to the Council of Europe (CoE) regarding allegations against the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret detention areas and covert prison transport flights – two days after the deadline for submitting this information expired.
On February 22 Terry Davis, the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, said that five CoE member states, including Georgia, failed to meet the February 21 deadline.
“Following my statement from yesterday [February 22] about the replies I have received concerning the inquiry on alleged CIA activities in Europe, I am pleased to announce that Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and Georgia have finally sent me their replies in the evening of 22 and the morning of 23 February… These replies will be analysed together with the other 41 I had received within the deadline,” Terry Davis said.
In November, 2005 the CoE Secretary-General requested the member states to inform what laws they have adopted to protect individuals from “forced disappearances, secret detentions and extraordinary renditions to places where they may be tortured or exposed to inhuman and degrading treatment.”
The Georgian officials have categorically denied the existence of any secret CIA detention centers operating on the Georgian territory.
