Baroness Ludford (Lib Dem, London); Claude Moraes (Labour, London) and Charles Tannock (Conservative, London) will be the three UK MEPs who will sit on the European Parliament's new temporary committee to look into allegations that the CIA transported and illegally detained prisoners on EU territory.
The temporary committee's mandate will be to collect and analyse information on:
- whether the CIA have carried out abductions, detentions at secret sites, torture, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners on EU territory or in acceding or candidate countries, or have run flights to or from such countries;
- whether such actions, even if carried out as part of the fight against terrorism, violate the EU Treaty, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights or other international agreements, including EU-US agreements on extradition;
- whether EU citizens, people from the candidate countries, or any other person entitled to protection from the EU have been detained;
- whether EU Member States or institutions have been involved.