Romania received “millions of dollars” from the CIA to allow the agency to torture terrorism suspects in secret prisons in the European country during the presidency of George W. Bush, says a human rights lawyer.
The claims were made by Amrit Singh during the opening day of a case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.
She noted that the prisons were operating in Romania from 2003-2005 with the government’s “acquiescence and connivance.”
Singh added that at a prison in Bucharest in 2004, her client, a Saudi national, was tortured by the CIA.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, currently in US custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison, was rectal-fed, sleep-deprived, and subjected to bright lights and loud noise during his imprisonment, she noted.
