Speaking at a news conference on the Amnesty International report "Partners in Crime - Europe's Role in US Renditions", Tuzlak warned about the danger of the prejudice about Europe being the greatest protector of human rights.
"Europe's behaviour... in the war on terrorism has only proven that Europe is a partner in crime to the United States," Tuzlak said presenting AI's recommendation to the Council of Europe member-countries, the Council of Europe and the EU, urging them to prevent human rights violations.
AI today released the second part of a report presenting evidence that some European countries were aware that US agents were violating international conventions on human rights on their soil through unlawful arrests and abduction of terror suspects.
The AI report was made on the basis of interviews with the victims and government officials, media reports and reports by human rights activists and flight records.
Europe"s governments have repeatedly denied their complicity in the US programme of "renditions" but it is now clear that many states have been complicit.
These include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Turkey and EU members Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK, reads the report which focuses on six cases of rendition of 13 unlawfully arrested victims, who were flown abroad.
The AI conclusions match those from a report by Council of Europe Secretary-General Terry Davis who noted that the existing European legislation did not provide appropriate guarantees against human rights violations.
Davis today issued his report which is based on answers sent to the Council of Europe by 46 member-countries, including Croatia, on air space control and activities of foreign intelligence services on their territory.
An investigation carried out by Senator Dick Marty for the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly shows that 14 European countries were involved in CIA's secret flights, while Poland and Romania had on their territory secret prisons where Islamists suspected of terrorism were detained.
The AI report also deals with the case of six Algerian nationals arrested in Bosnia-Herzegovina and transferred to the US base Guantanamo despite the fact that the Bosnian Supreme Court had acquitted them. Their attorney claims that they were extradited because Washington threatened to discontinue assistance to Bosnia if they were released.
AI Croatia secretary Tuzlak recalled the first part of the AI report in which it is noted that a plane which was used by the CIA for the transfer of terror suspects had also used the Dubrovnik airport.
The Croatian authorities sent the requested information to the Council of Europe, but they did not publish it, saying that it was better to wait for the Council to release complete findings of its investigation, Tuzlak said, adding that the authorities seemed to want the issue to be forgotten.