ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- A Swiss newspaper reported it has a classified document proving the existence of secret CIA prisons in Europe.
The newspaper Blick said in its Sunday issue it obtained a fax sent by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit to his embassy in London.
The fax states that "23 Iraqi and Afghani citizens were interrogated in the base Mihail Kogalniceanu near the Romanian city of Constanza at the Black Sea. Similar interrogation camps are located in the Ukraine, in Kosovo, in Macedonia and in Bulgaria."
The fax quotes "own sources," according to the newspaper, and was intercepted by Swiss intelligence on Nov. 15, the newspaper said.
Blick did not get any confirmation on the content of the fax. The Swiss government meanwhile said it would examine how the document became public and was evaluating legal steps against the paper.
The CIA has allegedly moved al-Qaida and other Islamist terror suspects to secret prisons in Eastern Europe and Asia where they were interrogated and tortured beyond the reach of international human rights legislation.
Washington and the alleged host countries have denied the existence of such secret prisons.
