Poland to pay $262,000 to inmates held at secret CIA prison

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Poland to pay $262,000 to inmates held at secret CIA prison
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press | February 18, 2015 | Updated: February 18, 2015 12:10pm

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland will pay 230,000 euros ($262,000) in compensation to two terror suspects who say they were tortured at a CIA secret prison that Poland hosted from 2002-2003, a government minister said Wednesday.

Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna spoke after the European Court of Human Rights in France rejected Poland's appeal of its earlier ruling.

"We will abide by this ruling because we are a law-abiding country," Schetyna told Polish Radio 3. "It is a question of the coming weeks, a month."

But he questioned how the money would be used and whether it needed to be paid directly to the suspects, who are imprisoned in Guantanamo.




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[KoKo]

1. "Ukraine conflict: UK joins Nato exercise in Poland"--BBC

Ukraine conflict: UK joins Nato exercise in Poland

21 November 2014 Last updated at 19:22 GMT

UK troops have taken part in the largest British armoured exercise in Europe since 2008.

More than 300 vehicles and 1,350 British troops took part in the bi-lateral training exercise with Poland.

The Nato exercise comes as US Vice-President Joe Biden, visiting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, warned Russia that it faces further isolation if it continues to violate ceasefires with Ukraine.

Defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports from northern Poland.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30153224