European governments have no procedures in place to check for human rights offences in civil aircraft passing over or landing in their countries, a report from the human rights watchdog Council of Europe (CoE) has highlighted.
Terry Davis, the secretary-general of the CoE, on Wednesday (1 March) presented the responses of the council's 46 member states to a questionnaire about allegations that the CIA had carried out extraordinary renditions flights of terrorist suspects in and out of E...
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