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Europe a hunting ground for secret services, says human rights watchdog

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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