P U BLIC Conseil UE WRITTEN QUE,TION E-3095/04 put 1y Fausto Bertinotti (8UE/N8L), Roberto Musacchio (8UE/N8L), Vittorio Agnoletto (8UE/N8L), Luisa Morgantini (8UE/N8L) and Giusto Catania (8UE/N8L) to the Council Subject: Private 4et for pri oner transport to countrie with no anti5torture law .n an article publi hed on 14 November 2004, the Sunday Time revealed the e(i tence of 8ghost8 private 4et used by the United State to transport terrori t suspect to countrie in which torture i not prohibited by law. According to the inve tigation carried out by the Sunday Time , a 14- eater Gulf tream 5 4et, regi tered a 8N379P8 and hired from Premier E(ecutive Transport Service , a private company in Ma achusett , flew to 49 de tinations out ide the US, including the Guant=namo Bay pri on camp and other US ba e , a well a Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Afghani tan, Libya and Uzbeki tan, 8alway departing from Wa hington8. The new paper report al o refer to 8te timonie 8 regarding four pre umed 8deportation 8 of suspect . The fir t of the e were obtained by Swedi h TA: they reported that Ahmed Agiza and Muhammed Zery were 8loaded on to the Gulf tream in December 2001 in Stockholm by hooded US agent 8, flown to Egypt and were then 8beaten and tortured with electric shoc3 to their genital 8. The Sunday Time give the name of two other 8de aparecidos8: Jamil Ga im, a Yemeni captured in Karachi who di appeared in Jordan in 2001, and Muhammad Saad .Ebal, arre ted in Jakarta in 2002 and put 8on a US Gulf tream flight8 to Egypt. Other 8torture flight 8 were reported in Afghani tan and Uzbeki tan, where the former Briti h amba ador, Craig Murray, wa di mi ed after accusing the C.2 of complicity in act of torture. The new paper al o mentions a second aircraft (a white Boeing 737 flying under regi tration 'B313P81 and include a statement by a former C.2 agent, Bob Baer. How doe the Council view the e report and how doe it intend to react to put an end to any such illegal transport of per ons subjected to tortureH _______________ 5008/05 rty/STCS/dot 2 JUR EN WRITTEN QUE,TION E-3120/04 put by Marco RiAAo (8UE/N8L) and Um1erto Guidoni (8UE/N8L) to the Council Subject: Torture flight Several 4ournali t allege that the C.2 and the American intelligence service are using Gulf tream 4et to transport terrori t uspect to countrie which torture detainee under interrogation in their 4ail , the countrie in que tion apparently include Egypt, Syria, and Uzbeki tan. The same source claim that there have been more than 300 flight to the e countrie during the la t two year and all trace ha been lost of some pri oner . No one know whether they are still alive. There are suspicions that even the .mam of Milan may have been abducted and transported on the e 4et . 1. What step will the Council take to a certain whether the pre report are trueH 2. What action doe it propose to take in addition in relation to a non-European country that i openly violating the principle laid down in Article 3 and 4 of the European Union Charter of Fundamental Right H 5008/05 rty/STCS/dot 3 JUR EN JOINT REPL) to Written Questions E-3095/04 put by Fausto BERTINOTTI and others, and E-3120/04 put by Marco RI66O and Um1erto GUIDONI The Council i not in the habit of commenting on article publi hed in the pre . The event de cribed by the Honourable Member in their que tions have not been di cus ed by the Council. _______________ 5008/05 rty/STCS/dot 4 JUR EN .