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European governments collaborated with a CIA "spider web" of rendition flights of terror suspects, according to a preliminary report.

Swiss Senator Dick Marty of the Council of Europe made his findings public in Paris on Tuesday, alleging there were corroborated facts strengthening the presumption that landing points in Romania and Poland were near secret detention centres.

The council relied on flight logs provided by the European Union's air traffic agency, Eurocontrol, as well as evidence from sources inside intelligence services.

"Even if proof, in the classical meaning of the term, is not as yet available, a number of coherent and converging elements indicate that such secret detention centres did indeed exist in Europe," Marty said.

"It is now clear … that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities. Other countries ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know."

He listed seven member states that could be held responsible, in varying degrees, for violations of the rights of specific individuals: Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Kingdom, Italy, Macedonia, Germany and Turkey.

Several more colluded, actively or passively, in the detention or transfer of unknown persons, Marty said.

Secret flights and prisons where suspects could face torture would violate European human rights conventions.

The inquiry of the Council of Europe was launched last November after the allegations of rendition flights and air bases in Romania and Poland were brought to light by the Washington Post, Human Rights Watch and ABC News. The full report is due to be debated by the council's assembly on June 27.
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