On November 24, 2005, we were told that military bases in Romania -Mihail Kogalniceanu- and in Poland -Szczytno-Szymany airport- have been used as secret prisons where the CIA interrogated suspected terrorists. From there to believe that the prisoners were abused and tortured is obvious. The bases may have been also used as stopovers for planes carrying prisoners to Guantanamo Bay. Other airports believed to have been used are Palma de Mallorca (Spain), Lanarca (Cyprus), Shannon (Ireland) and Ramstein (Germany.) Both Romania and Poland denied the accusations.

Khaled Masri a German man of Tunisian origin is suing the CIA and its former director, Tenet, over his treatment by the spy agency. Masri was arrested by the CIA, flown to Afghanistan where he was kept in a cell for four months. He was beaten, tortured and subjected to degrading treatment. He was thought to be an associate of the September 11, 2001, terrorists but this was not true.

On December 10, 2005, State department senior legal adviser John Bellinger defended the country's treatment of terror suspects and the transfer of prisoners to third countries for interrogation. He added Washington sought reassurance in those countries that prisoners would not be tortured. He said allegations that hundreds of suspects were sent around the globe to be tortured were "ludicrous". Poland is investigating reports the CIA ran secret jails on its territory.

An European human right investigator reported on January 24, 2006, that there were proofs of "unacceptable and appalling" illegal transfer of prisoners accused of terrorism activities using secretly and without authorisation European airports mainly in Britain, Germany and Spain. He added that the governments involved knew what was going on but preferred to close their eyes. However the investigator, the Swiss parliamentarian Dick Marty was unable to offer proof of secret prisons in Europe.

On February 1, 2006, it became clear that the CIA chartered at least two airplanes to secretly transporting detainees to countries where they would be tortured. They flew through British airspace many times in the last five years.

Thousands of detainees held in Iraq are still being denied basic human rights with reports of torture rife, Amnesty International said on March 6, 2006. It said its interviews with ex-inmates across Iraq had shown the lessons of the Abu Ghraib jail scandal appeared to have been ignored. The US and UK insist prisoners are treated to international standards. Iraq's acting human rights minister admitted abuse was continuing but that the government was trying to curb it.

The US military released 122 man-detainees in Iraq on March 8, 2006. The Combined Review and Release Board has reviewed the cases of more than 30,000 detainees at coalition facilities, including Abu Ghraib in Baghdad, Camp Bucca near the southern port of Umm Qasr and Fort Suse in the northern Sulaimaniyah area. More than 15,400 have been recommended for release.