Poland and Lithuania stressed today that will not allow the US authorities to settle again secret prisons on their territory if the new US president Donald Trump choose to put back in place the notorious program of rendition of terrorist suspects in jails abroad.
And the two east European countries are close US allies and had previously hosted secret prisons in the days of George Walker Bush and his "war on terror" following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
US officials say the Trump might revise the current American policy and program to be put back in place. Such prison where interrogations techniques used are the human rights organizations are torture, were also in Romania, Thailand and Afghanistan.
"There is no proposal for this and there is no room" for conversations on this, said the conservative prime minister of Poland Beata Sintlo reporters when asked if the government will consented to hosting such prisons. "My answer is no," he explained.
The Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevitsous, told Reuters news agency that Vilnius is ready to cooperate with the US on all strategic issues, but added that it should protect human rights.
"The tortured people not under international law (...) not only legally but also morally" found. "I do not believe that any civilized country should apply such methods. This is not just my personal position is the position of my country ", added the head of Lithuanian diplomacy.
Lithuania is faced with two applications to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by persons who report that they remained imprisoned and tortured over a decade ago in a secret prison in Lithuanian territory aware of their government. Vilnius has never officially admitted that he agreed to hosting secret CIA prisons.
A parliamentary inquiry conducted in Lithuania in 2010 revealed that members of the Lithuanian security services helped the CIA to set up appropriate facilities for the incarceration of suspects in a building of the Lithuanian capital. However, during the same investigation, there is no evidence that these facilities were actually used.
The ECHR had ruled in 2014 that the CIA operated a secret prison in a forest in northern Poland, codenamed "Quartz". It was the first time a European court ruled that the CIA had secret prisons on European soil.
The Constitution of Poland provides that no person may not be subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment.