Court demands secret files on US ‘black jails’ – www.telegraph.co.uk – July 17, 2012

“The United States is facing fresh embarrassment over its use of ‘black’ detention sites after the European Court of Human Rights ordered Poland to hand over secret documents …

“Judges in Strasbourg have requested documents that contain details of how the CIA set up its “extraordinary rendition” centre outside Warsaw in 2002 where it subjected al-Qaeda suspects to water-boarding and other extreme interrogation techniques…

“… Amrit Singh, of the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative which filed the case…

“”The US and Poland conducted this secret rendition and torture operation on European territory without any judicial review or oversight, and now a European court is showing that it takes these violations very seriously,” she added….

“The CIA black site at the Stare Kijekuty army base 110 miles north of Warsaw … details emerged about how al Nashiri was subjected to mock executions, kept hooded and naked and threatened with a power drill and the rape of his family members…”