Dear US Attorney General and Friends of Human Rights,

I am sitting in the building of the Milano Tribunale, having just met with Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro to hand in the report that he requested yesterday. I am very concerned because it appears that this prosecutor of proven integrity and courage is being blocked from effectively investigating and prosecuting the CIA's torture of me.

The reason I have that opinion is because he refused to undertake simply measures to collect and preserve the evidence of my torture, including not accepting the evidence I brought today, refusing to give me the name and address of a police official whom he trusted to preserve that evidence, and refusing to direct me to whom in the police and hospitals could collect the evidence of rape of my orifices up to his honest standards to prosecute the case.

Clearly, even a delay of 24 hours in collecting the medical legal evidence, as has already happened, is not justified. Furthermore, he said that it could be weeks to months before he decided to prosecute.