Poland To Pay $262,000 In Reparations To Inmates Held At Secret CIA Prison

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The July ruling was the first that any court has passed on the so-called "renditions program" that U.S. President George W. Bush launched after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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By Monika Scislowska | February 18, 2015

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland will pay 230,000 euros ($262,000) in compensation to two terror suspects who say they were held and tortured at a CIA secret prison that Poland agreed to host from 2002-2003, a government minister said Wednesday.

Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna made the statement after the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, rejected Poland's appeal of its earlier ruling.

"We will abide by this ruling because we are a law-abiding country," Schetyna told Polish Radio 3. "It is a question of the coming weeks, a month."

But he questioned how the money would be used and whether it needed to be paid directly to the suspects, who are imprisoned in Guantanamo.

The European court ruled in July that Poland violated the rights of terror suspects Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah by allowing the CIA to imprison them and by failing to stop the "torture and inhuman or degrading treatment" of the inmates.
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Poland appealed the ruling, saying it could influence its own investigation of the case.

The July ruling was the first that any court has passed on the so-called "renditions program" that U.S. President George W. Bush launched after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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