Turning a blind eye?

So says the head of a European human rights investigation into CIA renditions - the practise of flying abducted prisoners to foreign sites for interrogation.

But critics have said the Council of Europe's interim report today contains no new facts - and certainly no smoking gun.

Terry Davies, Secretary General of the Council of Europe spoke to More 4 News about how he's initiated his own enquiry.

It asks all member states to prove how they are legally ensuring that the European ban on torture is not violated on their territory.

He was asked whether he agreed with his colleague Dick Marty's view that European governments were "unlikely to be unaware" of extraordinary rendition flights.

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