United States Central Intelligence Agency distributed a statement which confirmed the cessation of the use of overseas secret prisons used for detention of suspected terrorists. Reported AFP.

Thus, the CIA to comply with United States President Barack Obama on the Elimination of secret prisons, gave them the day after his inauguration. In addition, Obama is preparing a decree to close the prison at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay.

Currently, according to the CIA, are preparing to transfer to another prison staff work.

Secret prisons located in Europe and the Middle East, were created by order of George W. Bush shortly after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center building in New York on 11 September 2001.

the first time, information about them has appeared in mid-2005. Its distributors – human rights organizations – emphasized that the mere existence of such prisons where kidnapped CIA agents suspected of terrorist activity, is already a gross violation of international law. In addition, to take testimony in the prison torture.

In late 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention for the protection of all citizens against violent abduction , which prohibits secret prisons. To investigate the situation with the CIA prisons in Europe, the European Parliament has established a special commission.

By the summer of 2008, in secret prisons in the U.S. held about 26 thousand people.