T D I P

1. T D I P Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners

2. TDIP Terrorist attacks

3. TDIP War On Terror

4. TDIP Reports & Inquiries

5. TDIP Justification • European Union's attachment to the principles of liberty, democracy and respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and of the rule of law, • Protection of fundamental rights is part of the constitutional order of the Community, • Protecting human dignity is one of the key objectives of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

6. TDIP Mandate • If territory of the European Union, includingcandidate and associate countries… • …Was used by the CIA or the intelligence services of other third countries… • …For the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners.

7. TDIP TASK Collect and analyse information to find out whether: • Intelligence services of other third countries have carried out detention at secret sites or torture or other degrading treatment, • Or have used the European territory for example through flights, • If such actions could be considereda violation of European and international agreements concluded by the EU and its Member States, • Or if any person entitled to protection from the EU, the Member States or the candidate countries have been amongthose involved in or subjected to alleged illegal activities, • Member States, public officials, persons acting in an official capacity or EU institutions have been involved.

8. TDIP Goal • Cooperate with the Council of Europe and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as with national parliaments, • Present an interim report within four months, • To submit to the plenary any recommendation in this matter, to be drawn at European level as well as possible consequences for EU relations with third countries.

9. TDIP Political Co-ordination Bureau Deputy Chairpersons Carlos COELHO Chairman Portugal, EPP SarahLUDFORDUK, ALDE Giorgos DIMITRAKOPOULOSGreece, EPP Cem ÖZDEMIRGermany, GREENS Rapporteur Claudio FAVA Italy, PSE

10. TDIP Activities • Analyzing data:- victims’ testimonies and experts’ reports- legal documents- media and NGO reports • Informing and requesting information from:- Governments- International Organisations- National Parliaments • Organizing:- public and in camera hearings- fact finding missions

11. TDIP Figures • 92 MEPs + Assistants + 6 Observers • 2 reports • 12 months • 14 hours of official sittings per month • Over 30 governments and parliaments to contact • Almost 40 people have been officially interviewed • Around 1000 articles in the press 9 Staff

12. TDIP Case of Mr. el MASRI

13. Case of Mr. el MASRI – FYROM stage • Travelled by bus from Germany to Skopje, • When entering FYROM from Serbia has been stopped and interrogated at the border crossing – 31.12.2003, • Has been taken against his will, by FYROM officials to a hotel in Skopje, • Has entered FYROM as a free man, • Has been detained incommunicado and interrogated by FYROM & possibly US services for 3 weeks, • No information what was he doing in Skopje, • Has left the hotel on 23.01.2004, Has paid a hotel bill, • Against his will has left from Skopje airport, with secret CIA flight, to Afghanistan, • Has left FYROM overland to Kosovo, • His passport was stamped on 23.01.2004, at Skopje airport. the stamp is no clear enough, to say from where is it.

14. Claudio FAVA Italy, PSE TDIP The Draft Report • Presented by the Rapporteur - April • Discussed by the Committee - May • Voted by the Committee - June • Voted by the Parliament - July Work of the Committee shall be continued

15. TDIP Human Rights in the report • Serious violations of fundamental human rights, • CIA has on several occasions been clearly responsiblefor the illegal abduction, detention, “extraordinary renditions”:- on the European territory,- in a number of cases, this has concerned EU nationals, • Condemns the practice of “extraordinary renditions”, • CIA has used aircraft to secretly abduct, detain and transfer persons to hand them over to countries, which frequently use torture.

16. TDIP Governments’ Involvement in the report • Impossible that certain European governments were not aware of the activities taking place on their territory, • Swedish authorities handed over the Egyptian nationals to CIA for transfer to Egypt, while being aware of the risk of torture facing these persons, • Extraordinary rendition of “the Algerian 6” by the Bosnian authorities to CIA agents in the absence of judicial guarantees and despite a formal decisionto the contrary by the human rights chamber for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

17. TDIP Use of Torture in the report • Prohibition of torture is absoluteand allows no exceptions, • Information extracted under torture may under no circumstances be considered as valid evidence, • Urges the Member States strictly to complywith Article 3 of the United Nations Convention against Torture.

18. TDIP Airspace & Airports in the report • Chicago Convention has been breached on several occasions during hundreds of flights carried out by the CIA using the airspace and airports of Member States, • Regrets that no Member State has adopted procedures aimed at verifying whether civilian aircraft are being used against internationally established human rights standards, • Considers European legislation on the use of national airspace and the airports to be totally inadequate; stresses the need to establish new national, European and international standards.

19. TDIP More Info Needed? www.europarl.europa.eu Tomasz.Banka@europarl.europa.eu