Court rejects Polish request to keep CIA jail hearing private

Through Christian Lowe PRAGUE (Reuters) – The European Court docket of Human Rights has rejected a request from the Polish govt to exclude the press and public from a listening to subsequent month into whether or not Poland hosted a secret CIA penitentiary on its soil, the court docket said on Thursday. The listening to in Strasbourg, scheduled for December three, will be the first time an open court docket has heard the allegations that Warsaw allowed the United States to detain and interrogate al Qaeda suspects in a woodland in northern Poland. The Polish government has denied any CIA penal complex existed, and has mentioned its communications with the court docket will have to be kept secret to protect its national safety. The courtroom told Reuters final month that Warsaw had requested that the listening to into allegations from two males who say they had been illegally detained with the aid of the CIA in Poland should happen behind closed doors.