Europe’s top human rights court condemned Poland on Thursday for hosting secret CIA prisons, saying Warsaw knowingly abetted unlawful imprisonment and torture of two Guantánamo-bound detainees.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of a Palestinian and a Saudi national locked up in a US “black site” for several months in Poland in 2002-2003 before being transferred to Guantánamo Bay, where they are still being held.
The Polish government “enabled the US authorities to subject the applicant to torture and ill-treatment on its territory”, the ECHR said in its rulings over the cases of Palestinian Abu Zubaydah, 43, and Saudi Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 49.
Their lawyers told the Strasbourg court the men were repeatedly tortured by waterboarding.
The ECHR also found Warsaw guilty of allowing the men to be sent to places where they faced torture, further detention and “flagrant denial of justice”.
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