European Parliament
Proinsias De Rossa (PSE ),
in writing
As regards the decision to establish a European Parliament Committee of Inquiry to investigate claims of secret CIA prisons and the torture of prisoners on EU soil or in countries seeking EU membership, if EU Member States or candidate countries had been involved, actively or passively, in running 'extra-judicial prisons', there would have been violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
It is important that we get to the root of the matter. We must investigate without prejudice but without being blind to the possibilities. We want to know the truth, nothing more than the truth. If we do this, then we are genuinely battling against terrorism but also against torture.

