NEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SOCIALIST GROUP

19 January 2006

SOCIALISTS NAME MEMBERS OF CIA PRISON INQUIRY COMMITTEE

The Socialist Group today announced the names of members proposed for the European Parliament inquiry committee into allegations of secret CIA prisons.

Said Group vice-president Jan Marinus Wiersma, who will serve on the committee:  "We hope we can work quickly.  It is our intention to get as much information as possible to verify the allegations that have been made and if necessary to make recommendations on how the EU should deal with this matter."

The Socialist Group members of the committee are:

Martine Roure (France), Giovanni Claudio Fava (Italy), Wolfgang Kreissl-Dörfler (Germany) Magda Kósáné Kovács (Hungary), Stavros Lambrinidis (Greece) Inger Segelström (Sweden), Claude Moraes (UK), Monika Benová (Slovakia), Jan Marinus Wiersma (Netherlands), Józef Pinior (Poland), Toomas Hendrik Ilves (Estonia), Hannes Swoboda (Austria), and Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco (Spain).

Substitute members from the Socialist Group are:

Marie-Line Reynaud (France), Lilli Gruber (Italy), Helmut Kuhne (Germany), Katalin Lévai (Hungary), Ana Gomes (Portugal), Reino Paasilinna (Finland), Richard Howitt (UK), Borut Pahor (Slovenia), Edith Mastenbroek (Netherlands),  Véronique De Keyser (Belgium), Marek Siwiec (Poland), Proinsias De Rossa (Ireland), and Antonio Masip Hildago (Spain).

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