News you may have missed #0080
August 26, 2009 Leave a comment
- UN human rights commissioner rejects immunity in CIA abuse cases. Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has said there should be no immunity from prosecution for torture of terror suspects by CIA agents.
- Iran accuses popular reformist of links to British intelligence. Iran says that Saeed Hajjarian twice met MI5 spy John Keane. Iran’s former intelligence minister, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, who was purged earlier this month, is the chief prosecutor in the case.
- Sri Lankan army chief’s cook was LTTE spy. Sri Lankan authorities have said that the cook of former Sri Lankan army chief, General Sarath Fonseka, was secretly working for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam.







European Union targeted by Colombian intelligence, documents show
June 29, 2010 by intelNews Leave a comment
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By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |
Several members of the European Parliament have voiced concern over the recent disclosure in Colombia of an alleged operation to undermine the European Union’s parliamentary and human rights bodies. The operation is reportedly mentioned in internal documents belonging to Colombia’s Administrative Department of Security (DAS), which were recently confiscated by the office of the Colombian Attorney General. The confiscated documents describe a clandestine program codenamed Operation EUROPE, which aims to wage a “legal war” intended to discredit and “neutralize the influence of the European judicial system, the European Parliament’s human rights subcommittee, and the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights”. Read more of this post
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