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Sweden was not used as a black site. The US promised to not torture three guys who were handed over to them, and then started torturing them, illegally at Brom
by impossiblefork 2y ago
Sweden was not used as a black site.
The US promised to not torture three guys who were handed over to them, and then started torturing them, illegally at Bromma airport, but this was restricted to things that they did not regard as torture, such as drugging people, putting things into their colons, use of 'restraints', etc.
There were no black sites in Sweden. There was torture here, but only for one afternoon, on an airplane that soon left our territory.
- mandmandam 2y ago> this was restricted to things that they did not regard as torture, such as drugging people, putting things into their colons What the fuck? Amazing I never heard about this, even doing my best to follow the 'extraordinary rendition' atrocities.
- impossiblefork 2y agoIt's a lot less bad than the worst stuff, so it's easy to miss. Sweden lost a case in the ECHR due to this one, and we didn't really participate and instead had obtained guarantees that weren't held to.
- impossiblefork 2y agoMy comment above is wrong, it wasn't ECHR, it was the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.