AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

However, Amnesty International is dismayed by Finland’s response to the recommendation that it investigate its participation in the CIA rendition programme. The authorities claim that they first investigated allegations of Finnish complicity in the rendition programme in 2005, and more recently conducted an “investigation” in 2011-2012. However, inquiries by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2011 and 2012 to some government agencies and to the US authorities do not qualify as the independent, impartial, thorough and effective investigation into human rights violations -such as enforced disappearance and torture -that is legally required by Finland according to its international human rights obligations and that is emphasized in a new report adopted by the European Parliament on 11 September 2012.