WARSAW, Poland, May 22 (UPI)

The U.N. committee against torture has condemned Poland’s police for the brutal interrogation of detainees, Warsaw media said Tuesday. The U.N. committee cited Polish authorities for long detentions without trial and for fomenting violence and hatred against homosexuals, Radio Polonia reported. In its report on Poland, the U.N. committee urged the Warsaw government to reveal additional information about the alleged U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s prisons on Polish territory. Criticizing Warsaw’s denial of the existence of the covert prisons for terror suspects, the U.N. committee asked the Polish government to publicize its internal findings on the issue, the radio said. The U.N. committee against torture is monitoring 144 countries that have ratified an international treaty banning torture.
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