Azerbaijan denies hosting CIA secret prisons

"The existence of secret jails on the territory of Azerbaijan is out of the question," said Samed Seyidov, head of the Azerbaijani delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

According to RIA Novosti, Seyidov said Azerbaijan had presented an official reply to a CE query about the possibility of secret prisons being run by the CIA in the country, adding that reports about the existence of such prisons in Azerbaijan were designed to tarnish the country's international image.

The Council of Europe's president said earlier the secret prisons allegedly being run by the CIA across Europe would be in focus at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe session in June.