Ex PM & President face torture charges

7th August 2010

Kwasniewski could face war crime charges

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A former president and a prime minister could both face war crimes charges connected to an alleged secret CIA base in Poland where inmates may have been subject to torture.

The newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza claimed prosecutors might press charges against Aleksander Kwasniewski, who served as president from 1995 to 2005, and Leszek Miller, prime minister from 2001 to 2004.

There is mounting evidence that the CIA used the Kiejkuty airfield near Szymany in the north-east as a staging post in the transport of terrorist suspects, and may have detained and possibly tortured them on Polish soil.

Both Mr Kwasniewski and Mr Miller have always denied knowledge of CIA prisons in Poland but have ad ...

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