EU governments reluctant to help CIA secret prisons probe

EUROPEAN governments are not willing to reveal what they know about US intelligence service activities on their territory, effectively obstructing an investigation into allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe, Human Rights Watch said it planned to tell the European Parliament today.

“There are very daunting obstacles to carry out this investigation successfully. They have little interest in revealing these activities that are covert,” said Joanne Mariner, director of the New York-based human rights watchdog’s terrorism and counter-terrorism programme.

“No country wants this info to be revealed,” she said yesterday. “What you need is an official who will come forward.”