GERMANY:
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST
CIA DIRECTOR GINA HASPEL


What responsibility does Gina Haspel, who was appointed
CIA director in May 2018, have for the torture of detainees
in a secret prison (“black site”) in Thailand? There are no
prospects of investigations in the United States. This is
why ECCHR uses the principle of universal jurisdiction in
Germany: ECCHR has filed a criminal complaint with the
German Federal Public Prosecutor (Generalbundesanwalt – GBA)
calling for investigations into Haspel’s role in the torture
of detainees in Thailand in 2002. The submissions against
Haspel (from June 2017 and September 2018) are a
follow-up to an earlier complaint on the US torture program
filed in Germany by ECCHR in December 2014.

The criminal complaint is joined by Guantánamo detainee
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was tortured at the CIA “black site”
in Thailand while Haspel served as chief of base at the prison.

CASE

In late 2002 Gina Haspel was appointed Chief of Base of the
CIA secret prison in Thailand known as “Cat’s Eye.” During this
time she oversaw the torture of Al Nashiri and potentially also
of other detainees. While at the Cat’s Eye prison, al-Nashiri
was subjected to a program of “enhanced interrogation” which
included waterboarding and other forms of torture.

Previously classified information about the role Gina Haspel
played in torture in Thailand came to light when she was
named CIA deputy director in February 2017, and again when
she was appointed CIA director in May 2018 by
President Donald Trump.

CONTEXT

ECCHR is calling for an investigation into the US torture
program as a whole and in particular into the members
of the administration, the CIA and the military who bear
responsibility for the program – including former
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former
CIA Director George Tenet.

The criminal complaint in Germany is made possible by
the German Code of Crimes under International Law,
which is based on the principle of universal jurisdiction
and allows German authorities to prosecute certain
grave crimes such as torture regardless of where they
were committed and regardless of whether German
nationals were involved.

On request, we can provide you with the written
submissions concerning Gina Haspel.




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SOURCE


>https://www.ecchr.eu/en/case/germany-criminal-complaint-against-cia-director-gina-haspel/




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Using litigation, it tries to hold state and non-state actors
responsible for egregious human rights abuses.