Activities of Marie-Christine VERGIAT related to 2012/2033(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Alleged transportation and illegal detention of prisoners in European countries by the CIA (debate)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas instruments governing the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and its two Optional Protocols, and the UN Convention Against Torture (CAT), and the Optional Protocol to the CAT, and the Council of Europe’s Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which not only mandates an absolute ban on torture but also requires investigation of allegations of torture; whereas the EU guidelines on torture provide the framework for the EU’s efforts ‘to prevent and eradicate torture and ill- treatment in all parts of the world’;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that counter-terrorism strategies can only be fully effective if they are conducted in strict compliance with human rights obligations and in particular the right to due process;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its condemnation of the practices of extraordinary rendition, secret prisons and torture, which are prohibited under domestic and international law stipulating respect for human rights law and which breach inter alia the rights to liberty, security, humane treatment, freedom from torture, presumption of innocence, fair trial, legal counsel and equal protection under the law;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regards it as essential that the EU ensures accountability forcondemns any abusive practices in the fight against terrorism, including any committed on its territory, not only so that the EU can live up to its values but also so that it can establish an international lead in this mattercredibly advocate them in its external partnerships;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges NATO and United States authorities to conduct their own investigations, collaborate fully with EU and Member State parliamentary or judicial inquiries on these issues1, and disclose information on extraordinary rendition programmes, and clarify thatalls for all NATO agreements and NATO-EU and other transatlantic arrangements to comply with fundamental rights; ______________ 1 See inter alia European Parliament resolution of 9 June 2011 on Guantánamo: imminent death penalty decision (P7_TA(2011)0271).
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the 2011 Council of Europe 1 ‘Inside Romania’s secret CIA prison’, The Independent, 9.12.2011. report states that the data obtained from the Polish agencies in 2009 and 2010 ‘provide definite proof’ that seven CIA-associated aircraft landed in Poland; whereas information published in the Polish media reported accusations made against the former Polish intelligence chief, and revealed possible collusion between intelligence officers and the former Polish President and Prime Minister on the use of a CIA detention facility in Polish territory; whereas a ‘black site’ was identified in Romania by journalists on the basis of information provided by former CIA employees in the Romanian national registry office for classified information12; whereas former Libyan dissidents have started legal proceedings against the UK for the direct involvement of MI6 in their own and their family members’ rendition, secret detention and torture;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the relevant authorities to end the habit of routinely invoking state secrecy in relation to international intelligence cooperation to block accountability and redress, and insists that only genuine national security reasons can justify secrecy, which is in any case overridden by non-derogable fundamental rights obligations such as the absolute prohibition on torture, including arbitrary, indefinite detention;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the EU to ensure that its own international obligations are fully observed and that EU policies and foreign policy instruments, such as the torture guidelines and human rights dialogues, are fully implemented, so that it is in a stronger position to call for the rigorous implementation of human rights clauses in associll international agreements that it signs and to urge its major allies, such as the United States, to respect their own domestic and international law;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges Member States to establish the truth concerning their involvement in the CIA programme and meet their obligation to investigate human rights violations by conducting independent and effective inquiries, taking into account all the new evidence that has come to light; urges Member States, in particular, to investigate the creation and operation of secret detention centres on their territory, particularly whether and under what conditions people were held in these secret detention centres within the context of the CIA programme;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. WelcomUrges the readiness expressed by the Lithuanian authorities to reopen an inquiryLithuanian authorities to reopen the criminal inquiry into Lithuanian involvement in the US-led rendition and secret detention programmes, in line with the statement they made saying they would do so if other new information coames to light, particularly in view of new information suggesting that people were transferred to secret detention sites in Lithuania; considers it essential that the scope of new investigations should cover, beyond abuse of power by state officials, possible unlawful detention and ill-treatment of persons on Lithuanian territory; encourages the Lithuanian Prosecutor-General’s office to substantiate the affirmations made during the LIBE delegation’s visit to the effect that the ‘categorical’ conclusions of the judicial inquiry are that ‘no detainees have been detained in the facilities of Projects No 1 and No 2 in Lithuania’;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on all Member States such asinvolved, including Finland, Denmark and, Portugal, Romania and Poland, to disclose all necessary information on all suspect planes associated with the CIA and their territory;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on Member States to ensure that there is cooperation and mutual legal assistance between the officials of Member States, particularly those responsible for investigating accountability processes associated with the CIA programme, especially to ensure that important data and information sources are exchanged; this mutual legal assistance and judicial cooperation must fully abide by international human rights law;