AI on Wednesday released on its web site a report saying that the Boeing 737 plane which international humanitarian organisations claim the CIA used from 2002 to 2005 for the transport of terror suspects, landed at Dubrovnik airport twice.
"The CIA in 2004 twice used Dubrovnik airport to transport a German national on suspicion of terrorism who was abducted in Macedonia and via Dubrovnik transferred to Afghanistan, where he spent several months in a CIA prison," AIH secretary Edin Tuzlak reiterated AI's claims.
Tuzlak could not say if there had been any other cases of transfer of terror suspects in Croatia.
Commenting on claims that under international conventions a country has no right to check private noncommercial flights, Tuzlak said that the latest case of illegal transfer should be reason enough to start checking such flights. "Abductions, arrests and detention should be reason enough to start checking such flights".
Tuzlak also warned that Croatia had not fully answered a Council of Europe questionnaire about the activity of US agents on its territory. The questionnaire was returned to Croatia due to incomplete answers. The Foreign Ministry is expected to answer it today, Tuzlak said, adding that Friday was the last day by which Croatia had to send its answers.