Poland: Reparations Deadline to Be Met for 2 Terrorism Suspects Held by C.I.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/world/europe/poland-reparations-deadline-to-be-met-for-2-terrorism-suspects-held-by-cia.html

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Poland will meet a Saturday deadline set by a European court to pay a total of $260,000 in reparations to two suspected terrorists who were interrogated in a secret C.I.A. prison in Poland, a foreign ministry spokesman said Friday. The European Court of Human Rights ruled in July that Poland had violated the rights of the two inmates by permitting the C.I.A. to imprison them in 2002 at a facility in northeast Poland. The secret prison is now closed. “We will abide by the ruling, as we always do,” said Marcin Wojciechowski, the chief spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In February, Mr. Wojciechowski said the authorities had come up with a plan to put the money into accounts that the suspects could gain access to only after they had been released. The two men — Abu Zubaydah, a high-ranking Al Qaeda official, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was accused of planning the attack in 2000 on the American destroyer Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden — are being held in the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.