CRI听力:European Court Rules Poland Violated Human Rights in CIA Case

Europe's top human rights court has ruled Poland violated the rights of two terror suspects by allowing the CIA to secretly imprison them on Polish soil from 2002 to 2003.

The Polish government is also being accused of facilitating the conditions leading to their alleged torture.

Leszek Miller, Poland's former prime minister is slamming the court's decision.

"The judgment of the Strasbourg Court is unfair and immoral. Unfair because it is based on rumor, speculation and slander. Material from Polish authorities was rejected and unchecked by the Court. Immoral, as the Court put the rights of murderers and terrorists over the rights of their victims. Quite bizarrely it is expecting that Poland will pay the murderers millions of zlotys."

The court has also determined Poland violated the European Convention on Human Rights by failing to stop the "torture and inhuman or degrading treatment" of two suspects imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The Polish government has yet to decide whether to appeal the ruling.

The lawyers for both terror suspects are hailing the decision.

The ruling by the European Court marks the first time any court has passed judgment on the "rendition programs" launched by the administration of US President George W. Bush after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.