A group of Iraqi civilians are to sue the Danish Army for damages, after new evidence suggests that they were handed over to Iraqi forces following their arrests in south Basra and subsequently tortured. Read the full story

Iceland is among the European countries which have not responded to an information request from two international human rights organisations about so-called CIA torture flights connected to the USA’s War on Terror. Denmark, Norway and Finland, however, did respond. Read the full story

An inquiry into so-called ‘CIA rendition flights’ in Greenlandic airspace will go ahead, but will not be the formal investigation that the country hoped for. Read the full story

Danish political parties, which called for an investigation into alleged double-dealing over CIA rendition flights in Denmark and Greenland when in opposition, have been criticised for backtracking now they are in power. Read the full story

The defence team in an appeal case against the conviction of a Rwandan pastor on genocide charges has reiterated to a Helsinki court their belief that witness statements were obtained through torture. Read the full story

The director of a specialised healthcare centre claims Finland’s immigration service has a callous disregard for torture victims, as dozens are deported back to their homeland each year. Read the full story

A Swedish tourist claims he was beaten up and electrocuted in an Egyptian prison for four days before escaping when protesters set fire to the building. Read the full story

A Danish officer says the military has been sitting on pictures showing the abuse of Afghani prisoners by American soldiers for five years. According to reports on the information provided to the Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee by defence minister Gitte Lillelund-Bech, the senior army official said he viewed the “Abu Ghraib-like” images on a CD in 2005. Read the full story

The Council of Europe’s European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) elected last week its new Bureau. Read the full story

Finland is considering giving political asylum to former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, which is due to be closed down by the United States. The base will be shut down and about 40 prisoners being held in Guantanamo without trial will be sent to different countries, mostly in Europe, that will grant political asylum. Read the full story