2004 2009
Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners
12.7.2006
WORKING DOCUMENT
on the working programme for the second half of the year
Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners
Rapporteur: Giovanni Claudio Fava
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This working programme includes proposals from the rapporteur as well as from different political groups, taking into account the general orientations agreed during the TDIP Committee meeting on 10 July 2006. The persons listed in this working programme can be heard by the TDIP Committee either in the framework of public hearings within a committee meeting or during official delegations.
This document is an evolving working programme to be modified on the basis of evidence that could be collected during the course of ongoing work or eventual contributions from Members of the TDIP Committee or political groups. Also, representatives at all levels from Member States, as well as from accession, candidate or associate countries which are not listed below can be added at a later stage depending on further developments, as for example: Cyprus, France, Greece, Sweden or Turkey, amongst others. Furthermore, representatives of the international community could also be asked to give evidence in the case of those countries or regions for which a United Nations mandate has been delivered.
Following the remit included in the European Parliament's Decision of 18 January 2006, the TDIP Committee's work will now focus on whether or not "Member States, public officials, persons acting in an official capacity or European Union institutions have been involved or complicit in illegal deprivation of liberty of individuals, including abduction, rendition, transfer, detention or torture, either by act or omission". Nevertheless, as a follow up to the work carried out so far, the TDIP Committee should also gather information on other cases not yet examined, especially as regards some alleged victims and/or their lawyers.
In the case of Member States' (and other countries') governments and officials, the TDIP Committee will invite, in the framework of its public hearings, only those persons who are currently in office and can speak on behalf of their governments. The TDIP Committee will decide on a further stage whether or not it is necessary to invite the former Members of Governments and/or officials who were in office when the alleged cases took place.
This working document also takes into account the remit of the European Parliament's Decision of 18 January 2006 concerning the close cooperation with international organisations and personalities, as well as with national parliaments.
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PUBLIC HEARINGS
1. Member States'(and other countries') Parliaments
• Germany
- Untersuchungsausschuss (special committee of inquiry) Chairman: Siegfried Kauder
• Romania
- Comisia de ancheta pentru investigarea afirmatiilor cu privire la existenta unor centre de detentie ale CIA sau a unor zboruri ale avioanelor inchiriate de CIA pe teritoriul Romaniei (special committee of enquiry) Chairwoman: Norica Nicolai - George Maior, Member of Parliamentarian Committees on defence and on intelligence, former Secretary Minister of Defence
• Bulgaria
- комисия по вътрешна сигурност и обществен ред (Internal Security and Public Order Committee) Chairman: Nikolay Avramov Svinarov
• Spain
- Comisión de control de los créditos destinados a gastos reservados Chairman: Manuel Marín (Chairman of the Congreso de los Diputados)
• Italy
- Comitato parlamentare per i servizi di informazione e sicurezza e per il segreto di Stato Chairman: still to be named
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• Poland
- Komisja do Spraw Służb Specjalnych Chairman: Marek Biernacki
• United Kingdom
- All-Party Parliamentary Group on extraordinary rendition; it has been formed by members of both Houses. Chairman: Andrew Tyrie
- Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) Chairman: Mike Gapes
- Joint Committee on Human Rights Chairman: Andrew Dismore
- Intelligence and Security Committee Chairman: Paul Murphy
2. Member States' (and other countries') governments and officials
• Bulgaria - Rumen Yordanov Petkov, Minister of Internal Affairs
• Germany - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister for Foreign Affairs - Ernst Uhrlau, President of BND (German Intelligence Services) - Klaus-Dieter Fritsche, Coordinator for Intelligence Services at the Chancellery
• Spain - Miguel Angel Moratinos, Minister for Foreign Affairs - José Antonio Alonso, Minister of Defence - Alberto Sáiz, Secretary of State-Director of Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (Spanish Intelligence Services)
• Ireland - Dermot Ahern, Minister for Foreign Affairs
PE 376.571v01-00 4/10 DT\624266EN.doc EN - Rory Brady, Attorney General - Maurice Manning, President of the Irish Human Rights Commission
• Italy - Clemente Mastella, Minister of Justice - Enrico Micheli, State Secretary for Intelligence Services
• United Kingdom - Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs - John Reid, Secretary of State for the Home Office - Des Browne, Secretary of State for Defence - John Scarlett, Director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) - Irfan Siddiq, Member of the Diplomatic Service - Elisa Manningham-Buller, Director General of the Security Service (MI5)
• Poland - Zbigniew Wassermann, Minister Coordinator of Intelligence Services - Anna Fotyga, Minister of Foreign Affairs - Radosław Sikorski: Minister of National Defence - Jerzy Szmajdzinski, former Minister of defence (2001-2005) - Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, former Head of Polish Intelligence Service - Andrzej Barcikowski, former Head of domestic Intelligence Service - Marek Biernacki, Chairman of the parliamentary Special Services Committee, former Minister of Internal Affairs (1999 – 2001);
• Portugal - Luís Amado, Minister for Foreign Affairs (from 1 July 2006), former Minister of Defence - Luís Almeida, Director of Instituto Nacional da Aviaçao Civil (National Institute of Civil Aviation) - Manuel Jarmela Pardos, Director of Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (Office for Foreigners and Borders) - Antero Luís, General Director of Serviço de Informações de Segurança (Office of Security Informations)
• Romania - Mihai-Răzvan Ungureanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs - Vasile Blaga, Minister of Internal Affairs - Sergiu Medar, advisor on national security and defence, former Chief of Military Intelligence Directorate (1999-2005) - Ioan Talpes, Head of the National Security Department, Chief of the Presidential Administration
DT\624266EN.doc 5/10 PE 376.571v01-00 EN - Renate Weber, Chairman of the Open Society Foundation, former Counsellor of the President Traian Basescu within the Legislative Constitutional Department until 30 December 2005
• Czech Republic - Frantisek Bublan, Minister for Internal Affairs (he stated on 3 November 2005 that the US had asked for the use of structures to house Guantanamo detainees. The request was refused.)
3. Member States' judicial authorities
• Germany - Martin Hofmann, Munich Prosecutor
• Italy - Armando Spataro, Milan Prosecutor
• Spain - Vicente González Mota, Prosecutor of Audiencia Nacional
4. European Union Institutions
• Franco Frattini, Vice-President of the European Commission
• Benita Ferrero Waldner, Commissionner for External Relations
• Council's Presidency
• Javier Solana, General Secretary of the Council and High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy
PE 376.571v01-00 6/10 DT\624266EN.doc EN 5. Council of Europe
• Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
6. United Nations
• Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
• Martin Scheinin, UN’s Special Rapporteur for promotion and protection of Human Rights while countering terrorism.
• Wolfgang Petritsch, High Representative of the international community in Bosnia- Herzegovina (1999-27.5.2002).
• Michael Steiner, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General, Head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), (1.2002-7.2003).
• Lieutenant-General Marcel Valentin, Kosovo Force (KFOR), Commander in 2002.
• Lieutenant General John B. Sylvester (SFOR, Stabilisation Force in Bosnia- Herzegovina, September 2001 - October 2002))
7. NATO
• Lord Robertson, former Secretary-General of NATO
8. Human Rights organisations
• Marek Antoni Nowicki, President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, former Ombudsman of Kosovo (2000-2005), former Member of European Commission of Human Rights (1993-1999).
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• Hossam el-Hamalawy, Egyptian Human rights activist and journalist for the Los Angeles Times and the Cairo Times. He is on record stating that since 9/11 between 150 and 300 persons have been extra-rendered to Egypt.
• Liberty, British NGO which has followed very closely extraordinary renditions and CIA flights as they relate to the UK. It has been in the forefront with the request to the UK's government for the establishment of an independent investigation.
• Justice, British NGO working on human rights and law reform in the UK.
• Jakob Kellenberger, President of the International Red Cross.
9. Journalists
• Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe D'Avanzo, journalists of "La Repubblica", Italy. They published several articles on involvement of Italian intelligence on the Abu Omar case.
• Rusen Çakir, Turkish journalist from "Vatan".
• Jarosław Giziński, journalist of "Newsweek Polska", who with other reporters, investigated allegations and was able to get confirmation of allegations from a member of Polish Government.
• Pawet Wronski, from one of Poland's biggest newspapers "Gazeta Wyborcza". He published several articles on alleged CIA-detention centres in Poland.
• Marek Ksiazek, journalist of the local newspaper in the area of Szymany. He made some interviews locally, like with the ex-Director of Szymany airport, Jaroslaw Jurczenko.
10. Victims & Lawyers
• Martin Mubanga, British citizen, detained in Zambia, sent to Guantanamo, released without charges after three years. He now lives in the UK. Mubanga will be accompanied by his attorney, Louise Christian.
PE 376.571v01-00 8/10 DT\624266EN.doc EN • Patrick Baudouin, lawyer of the FIDH (Fédération Internationale des Ligues de Droits de l'Homme), responsible for the judicial proceedings on CIA flights that have passed through France.
• Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer of:
o Bisher al Rawi and Jamil al Banna, UK residents kidnapped in Gambia and still detained in Guantanamo. o Benyam Mohammed al-Habashi, UK resident, detained in Pakistan in 2001, sent to Bagram, Morocco and finally Guantanamo.
• Wagab al Rawi, brother of Bischer al Rawi. Detained in Gambia with him and later released. He now lives in the UK.
• Laid Saidi, detained in 2003 in Tanzania and later sent to Afganistan where he was kept for 16 months and subjected to torture. He was in the same jail as Kalhed el Masri.
• Gül Pinar, lawyer of Mohammed Haydar Zammar. German citizen, kidnapped and sent to a jail in Damascus, Syria, where he still is.
• Francesca Longhi, lawyer of Abu Al Kassem Britel, Italian citizen detained in Pakistan, sent to a jail in Morocco, his country of origin, where he still is.
• Bernhard Docke, lawyer of Murat Kurnaz. Born in 1982 in Germany to Turkish parents. Detained in Pakistan in 2001, has spent the last four years in Guantanamo.
• Montasser al Zayat, lawyer of Abu Omar.
11. Other personalities
• Christos Rozakis, Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights (on a personal basis)
• Michael Wood, former Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1999-2006
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DELEGATIONS
• GERMANY
• UNITED KINGDOM
• ROMANIA
• POLAND
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