Secret CIA Prison in Poland: the European Court of Human Rights Steps In

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Monday, April 1, 2013
Author: 
Michael Plachta
Volume: 
29
Issue: 
4
Abstract: 

Following the judgment delivered on December 13, 2012, by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) in the case of El-Masri v. “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” (application no. 39630/09)[2], the Court issued a significant order in a similar case against Poland. Since May 2011, the Court has been looking into a complaint by Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri,[3] who alleges he was secretly detained at a Polish intelligence training base in the northeast of the country from December 2002 to June 2003.[4]