The European Court for Human Rights has found Romania and Lithuania guilty of violating the European ban on torture for hosting secret CIA prisons where terrorism suspects were tortured.
The European Court of Human Rights in a judgment on Thursday said Romania and Lithuania had violated the European prohibition on torture, and ordered them to pay 100,000 euros in damages each to two terrorism suspects who were detained and tortured in CIA jails in the countries.
The Strasbourg court ruled that Romania had hosted a CIA secret prison under the code name Detention Site Black between September 2003 and November 2005 and urged it to bring all the responsible officials to justice as soon as possible.
The case against Romania was submitted in 2012 by Abd Al Rahim Husseyn Muhammad Al Nashiri, who faces the death penalty in the US for his alleged role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, which left 17 dead, and another bombing of a French oil tanker, the Limburg, in 2002.
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