MOSCOW, May 15 (Sputnik) — On Thursday, Poland began paying damages to Abd Rahim Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah who were once held in the Stare Kiejkuty black site in northeastern Poland after the ECHR ruled in July 2014 the country violated the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing torture and humiliating treatment of terrorist suspects interned in CIA black sites.
"There are some countries, and the public already knows, that participated in the CIA torture program. Those countries have not acknowledged that in general or offered compensation. There may be additional court cases in the European Court of Human Rights where there will be similar orders," Deputy Washington Director for Human Rights Watch Andrea Prasow said.
Both prisoners are now held at the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. They are receiving payment because the tortures they experienced were "with the assistance of Poland or Polish knowledge," Prasow added. The two Saudi Arabian nationals will receive 100,000 euros ($114,000) in compensation each.
Poland, Lithuania and Romania are among a number of European nations that hosted CIA black sites in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. The clandestine facilities allowed US authorities to circumvent US laws by kidnapping, detaining and torturing suspects in its large-scale war on terrorism.
