Red Cross seeks access to CIA prisons

THE Red Cross yesterday called for access to all foreign terrorism suspects held by the US as the EU checked reports of a covert CIA prison system in Europe for al-Qaida captives.

The Washington Post said on Wednesday the CIA had been hiding and interrogating inmates at a secret facility in Eastern Europe, among so-called “black sites” in eight countries under a global network set up after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

“We are concerned at the fate of an unknown number of people captured as part of the so-called global war on terror and held at undisclosed places of detention,” Antonella Notari, chief ICRC spokesperson said.