In an interview published on 26 November 2005 in the Spanish daily newspaper El País, Álvaro Gil-Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, outlines his role in the opening of the investigation, led by the Secretary General as well as by the organisation’s Parliamentary Assembly, into the activities of foreign security services and, in particular, the allegations of illegal detentions and rendition flights on the territory of member States of the Council of Europe.