Spanish minister due before committee on CIA prisons

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos is due to appear before a European Parliament committee investigating alleged CIA secret flights and detention centres in Europe today to answer questions about his government’s possible involvement in the transfer of suspects to US secret agents.

Moratinos is the first EU government minister to testify before the special committee, which has heard dozens of hours of testimony from individuals who said they were kidnapped and tortured by US agents, as well as from EU officials and rights groups.