{"id":252944,"date":"2016-06-30T02:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cia-paid-romania-millions-of-dollars-for-secret-prisons-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2016-06-30T02:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:35:38","slug":"cia-paid-romania-millions-of-dollars-for-secret-prisons-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cia-paid-romania-millions-of-dollars-for-secret-prisons-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA paid Romania millions of dollars for secret prisons: Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"82.5\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:black\">Romania received \u201cmillions of dollars\u201d from the CIA to allow the agency to torture terrorism suspects in secret prisons in the European country\u00a0during the presidency of George W. Bush, says a human rights lawyer.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The claims were made by Amrit Singh\u00a0during the opening day of a case at the European Court of Human Rights\u00a0in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">She noted that the prisons were operating in Romania from 2003-2005 with the government&#8217;s &#8220;acquiescence and connivance.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Singh\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:black\">added that at a prison in Bucharest in 2004, her client, a Saudi national, was tortured by the CIA. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">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. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20160630\/17178058-296c-4d90-925d-e046a56d23b5.jpg\"\/><figcaption><em>This December 2011 file photo shows the National Registry Office for Classified Information, also known as ORNISS, where the CIA operated a secret prison from the&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/06\/30\/472835\/cia-Romania-torture-Strasbourg-black-sites\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania received \u201cmillions of dollars\u201d from the CIA to allow the agency to torture terrorism suspects in secret prisons in the European country\u00a0during the presidency of George W. Bush, says a human rights lawyer. The claims were made by Amrit Singh\u00a0during the opening day of a case at the European Court of Human Rights\u00a0in Strasbourg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}