Brussels, 26/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - Amnesty International published a new report on Tuesday 24 June entitled “State of denial: Europe's role in rendition and secret detention”, in which it demonstrates that European states still have not admitted violations committed by their nationals or on their territory, nor opened any investigations into these actions. “Seven EU Presidencies have passed since European involvements in renditions was first exposed and there has been no action whatsoever - not even an acknowledgement of Europe's complicity”, said Nicolas Beger, Director of Amnesty International's Europe Office. “The danger here is not only one of lack of coherence and respect for the EU's values but that by ignoring the problem it is allowing such serious violations to continue”, he added in a press release. Amnesty is therefore taking the opportunity offered by the new report to call once again for concerted action across Europe to avoid a repetition of these violations. The report also gives additional information on six cases involving 13 people, and on the involvement of European states (Sweden, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Bosnia) in secret CIA programmes to transfer suspects to prisons where they were likely to face violent torture. The report also mentions Poland as a country which is likely to have been home to a secret detention centre. The New York Times, in its 21 June edition, quotes a CIA officer, speaking anonymously, who confirms that one of these “black sites” did exist in Szymany, 160 km from Warsaw, a claim which was immediately denied by the Polish Ministry of Defence. (B.C./transl.fl)