A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 106 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response Nechle, from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina to Incirlik, Turkey in January 2002. From there they were flown to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they continue to be detained without charges. Two German military officers, working at EUCOM, were assigned as liaison officers and tasked with obtaining and communicating information between the German and U.S. authorities. Furthermore, information regarding this case was displayed on sources accessible to the public such as the website of EUCOM. U.S.-EUCOM. The German liaison detachment acts as a point of contact for the U.S. forces in Germany and is mainly responsible for the exchange of information between U.S.-EUCOM and the German territorial commands. From 21 January 2002 onwards this detachment was augmented by an additional officer and senior NCO. These additional soldiers joined a multinational planning group which dealt with issues of support for the U.S. in preparing and implementing Operation Enduring Freedom and developed exercise scenarios for basic planning. None of the liaison officers were involved in planning or activities connected with the transfer and transport of the terror suspects. The case of the transfer of the "Algerian Six" has already been presented and commented on by the Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe, Mr. Dick Marty. On 27 November 2006, the Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations of Germany (ARD) current affairs television programme Report Mainz broadcast a report about the transfer of six Algerian citizens from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Guantanamo via Turkey, and the alleged role of U.S.-EUCOM headquarters in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. Immediately prior to the broadcast of the report, Südwestrundfunk (SWR) 2 sent a press release to the Stuttgart Public Prosecution Office dated 23 November together with photocopies of various documents intended as evidence of the responsibility of U.S.-ELCOM headquarters. The Stuttgart Public Prosecution office instituted an appraisal of the matter on 27 November 2006 on

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